One of the dogs that isn't barking in the Hong Kong protests, which are coordinated almost entirely online, is Facebook. The site could be offline right now for all anyone knows and it would have zero impact on anyone here.
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I believe that having the main locus of public discussion be a Hong Kong-specific forum not run by a large foreign tech company was one of the best technology decisions of the protests. That said, one such company (Cloudflare) plays a pivotal role in protecting against attacks
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Another technology nonevent that has helped Hong Kongers is that the infrastructure is not in place to bring the territory within the Great Firewall. This has seriously narrowed repressive options for the government. The #1 rule of surveillance architecture is: leave it unbuilt
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There's an unrelated reason that emergency measures to limit internet access weren't taken this summer, having to do with the consequences of such a measure on expats. But it really helped not to have a highly sophisticated filtering/censorship system in place and ready to go
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thanks for this. I didn’t realize you had spoken on HK, and your brief talk answered nearly all my open questions.
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