I think there’s a significant amount of misinformation spreading about the #HongKongProtests. It’s understandable but I don’t get the same vibe on the ground. (I don’t think tanks are rolling in! It doesn’t make sense and there is no recent indication—yet).
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The man finally appears to have been led away in a stretcher to an ambulance. (Saw from a distance). In the chaos, the barricade blocking the departure was quickly cleared as well and some travelers rushed in. A different vibe now here for sure.
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Hong Kong airport has broken into intermittent chaos. I’ve moved away (and my role isn’t reporting). I hope everyone is safe tonight. A thank you, also, to many protesters who approached me with concern as chaos broke out. And the medics who worked so hard.
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Just to update everyone I’m safe and away. A court injunction has been issued against airport protesters (so that protest is likely over) but that’s probably going to be the least of what will be on this young movement’s agenda tomorrow.
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One context to Hong Kong is that just the kind of people with experience and moral authority who could participate in the movement and defuse the kind of situation that happened at
#hkairport yesterday... are in jail. And world isn't there for them either.https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/13/views-behind-bars-can-hong-kongs-imprisoned-activists-make-voices-heard/ …Show this thread -
The self-reflection and responsibility shown by Hong Kong's generally young protesters is impressive. They've been protesting for 10 weeks, just hoping to keep some basic rights. (Their visual refers to the young medic who lost an eye last week). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/world/asia/hong-kong-airport-protests.html …pic.twitter.com/gOPDTUiRsC
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Mainland crosser are apparently being forced to unlock phones. We
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Mode! It’s ridiculous that the only options are carrying blank phones or carrying all of your history with you at all times. Simple: no history for next x days. No indication.https://twitter.com/sumlokkei/status/1161799411959123968 …Show this thread -
A surge in zero follower/bot-looking accounts responding to my Hong Kong tweets with this kind of muddy-the-water claims. This one is following Taylor Swift, CNN and Huawei.
(There are no accounts of protesters shooting steel balls—let alone to blind one of their own medics!)pic.twitter.com/jAM0BtJ7Kw
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Yes! Journalists *absolutely* need to carry China-only devices with them and platforms and OS makers (Apple/Android) need to create a travel mode: silently locking out history for X days for ordinary people who can’t always buy extra devices. Thread here.https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1161825907541258240 …
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Dude apparently lives in Sydney, Australia.
Always amazes me how cowardly most of these types are, keyboard-warrioring in defense of authoritarians while sheltered in countries with more freedoms.https://twitter.com/rwarjhralg0jlo9/status/1161829948585205760 …Show this thread -
For sure “twlcor3kqv2ucxj”. (Someone check on the guy who wrote the random user name generator and report him to /r/maliciouscompliance). https://twitter.com/twlcor3kqv2ucxj/status/1161831023362969600 …
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Well. If there is one place that will manage to acquire and trade something so in demand...https://twitter.com/shibanimahtani/status/1161977179346837504 …
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This is what had happened during Gezi park protests. Instant response by the informal economy.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/343698864336953344 …
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I’ve witnessed this. The police are quick to tear gas.https://twitter.com/sumlokkei/status/1162024242671603715 …
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Cathay Pacific staff fired for supporting the protests..https://twitter.com/maryhui/status/1162032206623039488 …
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Hongkongers keep trying to get permits to march, keep getting denied. That's important part of the context and another way on which everything us put on the shoulders of the young people willing to take the risks. They are the ones that march anyway.https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/16/hong-kong-police-say-748-arrested-summers-anti-govt-protests-weekend-demos-banned/ …
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Research on Hong Kong's protesters: mostly "young, educated, middle-class."https://twitter.com/alanwongw/status/1161276793627635712 …
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Protests in a country with functioning infrastructure! "Once you get notified about [a protest], you descend through a spotless mall onto a bright and clean train platform, get whisked away by a train that arrives almost immediately." No US city has this. https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1162254503682293761 …
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What about the promoted ads? Twitter has stopped taking such ad money. Facebook and YouTube have not yet announced that. https://twitter.com/rthk_enews/status/1164700039752511488 …
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The protesters in Hong Kong are getting ready to form a human chain on the 30th anniversary of the historic Baltic one. (They also put up “Lennon walls” most everywhere—where people express their opinions and feelings.)pic.twitter.com/ka5oWdw49T
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A little girl chants “Heung gong yan”’(HongKongers) and the crowd replies “Ga Yao/ Keep Going!”. (This is the most common slogan I hear in the
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Hong Kong protesters chant: “Stand with Hong Kong / Fight for Freedom.” I have been walking along the
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The Hong Kong protest human chain dispersed on schedule. At the end, at nine pm, they all symbolically closed one eye and chanted “give back the eye”, referring to the medic who lost her eye. Also they let cars through green lights, reassembling when it turned red for cars.pic.twitter.com/tz0lUtrHJw
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This is an informative video series. It’s striking how similar these are to Arab Spring and other protests! There, too, often anonymous strangers kept the protesters supplied and off-duty medical personnel acted as medics, etc.https://twitter.com/alanwongw/status/1165050189398175744 …
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In a somewhat unprecedented move, Hong Kong’s famed and uber-functional MRT has shut down four metro stations near today’s legal protest.
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A sea of umbrellas, walking to Kwun Tong.
(Hong Kong’s public transportation authority has shut down metro stations around the protests area).pic.twitter.com/HiV2ix0y0n
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Large march has started along the path to these “smart” lampposts—surveillance poles, basically. MTR shut down has meant many people have walked to here.
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The protesters have been dispersed. This US-made tear gas canister is what the Hong Kong police have been throwing at the
#HongKongProtesters. I’ve see this same brand, Pennsylvania based “nonlethal technologies” in many countries around the world.pic.twitter.com/pGzr95t2FC
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