Oh man, thank goodness Hacker News is discussing this and figuring out how to solve the problem from first principles. Special hats-off to the tech people strategizing on this public forum about how they would de-anonymize protesters.
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At the protest tonight on Chapter road—it is absolutely packed here. Theme is "stand with Hong Kong", going out to a foreign audience. Lots of police but mercifully none in riot gearpic.twitter.com/wa1b1XgsDE
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My unpopular opinion: the laser pointers are way too strong, especially the blue kind. People will get hurt
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If you see a huge protest in America and one guy is holding a FREE MUMIA sign, you don't automatically think "these people must be here to free Mumia". Similar logic holds for the people bringing U.S. flags to the
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People are here in NUMBERS! And the only reason I can tweet it with pictures is the fast, free municipal wifipic.twitter.com/jKGbQPpfdh
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Crowd out here is still growing. Lightning flashing in the distancepic.twitter.com/1y0W2YbOxx
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Chased away from the rally when someone put an especially dire rendition of the US national anthem on blast. Worst thing about our anthem: if we'd lost that war, we'd be CANADA
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I'm a Hong Konger living in the US. Thanks for going to HK to experience this summer of protests first-hand and thank you for writing this. 香港人加油!Hong Kong ga-you!

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Lovely and fascinating post, thank you for sharing this.
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