This tweet killed 47% of my brain. David Brooks understands as much about technology as he does about Hong Konghttps://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1166174146067337216 …
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Re-reading this essay (oh god why) it becomes clear to me that David Brooks doesn't even understand that Hong Kong has its own government, which is the target of the protests. He appears to think it is a subsidiary of communist China, proprietor of magic technologypic.twitter.com/wUywj0gMlS
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Mass surveillance is not the threat people face right now in Hong Kong. Being individually identified and losing your job or getting kicked out of school because you participated in a protest is the threat. That is a story about repression and freedom of assembly, not technology.
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There's a protest starting in an hour over Cathay Pacific workers who were fired over mild support of the protests. You can cover this as a tech story, since their devices have been aggressively searched for protest photos. But to do that is to miss the point.
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