Joshua Wong 黃之鋒  😷Verified account

[My comment on the mass resignation of pro-democratic camp lawmakers] 1/ After Beijing stepped in and appointed the “provisional legislature” in August, it simply explains that they can't ensure a majority had the election taken place on time. All lawmakers are lack of mandate.

2/ While the authorities decided to unseat four more lawmakers, it's time for all democratic camp lawmakers to resign from this appointed legislature. Act as decorative flower vases inside the institution may just let Beijing take advantage to calm down global discontent.

3/ We wish to warn the world that now the existence of legislature never implying the existence of check and balance. Also, it's time to rise to the fact that win seats in the election and street clash are not the two only scenes in a democratic movement.

4/ Of course, we did those in the past, but run for office and street rally should not be the two only way of demonstrating peoples’ voices even it could be harder to mobilize people during the outbreak of coronavirus.

5/ Alternatively, more than hundreds of thousand HKers took to the streets virtually by online assembly. And there has been a virtual protest through #AnimalCrossing. HK game players organized the protest, which resulted in Animal Crossing being banned in mainland China.

6/ Online mobilization at Twitter also proved significant to HKers. It's enormous to exert discursive power against state propaganda. We even develop a ‘daily assignment’. Each day we got a list of ‘essential tweets’ to retweet and boost protest-related content into hot topics.