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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Aug 2019

      It’s been like this all day. I just saw a lot of random people coughing and being helped to wash their eyes. Tear gas everywhere. 😢#HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/Tey2WYiFtL

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Aug 2019

      I can’t get a good picture but the protesters haven’t dispersed. It’s been almost 10 hours of teargas, foam bullets, arrests... It sometimes looks like a scene out of Blade Runner. #HongKongProtests.pic.twitter.com/1KiKWfGkad

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Aug 2019

      Does anyone have info on the blue dye water cannon used today by the Hong Kong police? I’ve seen it spiked with pepper spray in other places and lots of people are reporting pain and irritation after being sprayed. (Protesters left wipes and change of clothes at MTR entrance).pic.twitter.com/nlatPIikzA

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Aug 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Yesterday night, Hong Kong police stormed several subway stations after the protests. Videos emerging have been showing passengers being beaten and pepper sprayed in confined spaces. https://twitter.com/ariahychen/status/1167996538762625027 …

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Aug 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Danny 😷李嘉洪: boosted 💉 💉 💉

      I was on the MTR (Hong Kong subway) just before all that happened. It was full of protesters and ordinary passengers going home. It’s ordinarily a very well run, amazing system that everybody relies. This isn’t a place where such scenes are normalized.https://twitter.com/journodannyaero/status/1167994686591496192 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

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      Danny 😷李嘉洪: boosted 💉 💉 💉Verified account @JournoDannyAero
      WATCH: about 10 seconds into my clip. You can see the police captured & subdued a suspected protester but a riot cop hits the young guy repeated w/ the end of his baton. He is stopped further when the press (me) is spotted filming. pic.twitter.com/qqg0AgRuxD
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Sep 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Erin Hale

      This may look like a routine protest, but they are taking a huge risk. There is a legal injunction on the airport, with potentially very long jail sentences. And it’s a confined space with no way out. Hong Kong protesters have been remarkably tenacious.https://twitter.com/erinhale/status/1168051883505700864 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

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      Erin HaleVerified account @erinhale
      Several entrances to the airport have been blocked by protesters - who are numbering in the thousands it seems - all outside this time pic.twitter.com/Z0qB5rQ3Hf
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Sep 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted isabella steger

      Note that the Hong Kong police were not being heckled by the protesters but whoever happens to be inside the airport. The protesters hadn’t entered the airport because of the way paperwork checks have been moved right outside the doors and the injunction.https://twitter.com/stegersaurus/status/1168090747251200001 …

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      isabella stegerVerified account @stegersaurus
      amazing scenes of police rushing into the arrivals hall, filmed by tourists, getting heckled by travelers (protesters barred from getting inside bc of security checks) https://twitter.com/RamyInocencio/status/1168050230346035200 …
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Sep 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      You know that there is no universal suffrage or true democracy in Hong Kong? In fact, that’s what they are demanding. To have a democratic voice rather than have to protest. https://twitter.com/noalgonick/status/1168126994132811776 …

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Sep 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Erin Hale

      The protesters indeed had a major protest at the Hong Kong Airport today. The police shut down all the train lines out and also showed up at the ferry stations. Result: they walked for hours and got picked up by HongKongers who showed up to save them. 🤷‍♀️https://twitter.com/erinhale/status/1168153273234161665 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Erin HaleVerified account @erinhale
      These Hong Kong protesters have walked for more than three hours to get to the toll plaza on Lantau, where more motorists are picking people up to avoid police ahead pic.twitter.com/WmpAH6k2H1
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Sep 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤

      See thread on “Hong Kong’s Dunkirk.”https://twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/status/1168156914158469120 …

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      Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤Verified account @rhokilpatrick
      Look at this fleet of supports and kind-hearted strangers trying to get protesters out of the Tsing Ma Bridge toll plaza and #backhome safe. pic.twitter.com/7VDTYT696S
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Sep 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted t  💉 💉 💉

      The eye-patch (referencing the medic girl who was shot in the eye in Tsim Sha Tsui) has been everywhere in the Hong Kong protests.https://twitter.com/myetcetera/status/1168171242160975873 …

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      t  💉 💉 💉Verified account @myetcetera
      Via. https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156573973305334&id=578130333&set=a.10151384171700334&source=48 … pic.twitter.com/LhrKVsS07B
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

          Today's the first day of school in Hong Kong and the student have called for a school strike. One sees riot police in robocop gear around town now, and ID checks and searches. It's a striking shift in how the city feels. (Below, Carrie Lam's alma mater)https://twitter.com/HongKongFP/status/1168363475459923968 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Hong Kong Free Press HKFPVerified account @hkfp
          At St. Francis' Canossian College - Carrie Lam's alma mater - students in helmets knelt and held up a placard reading: "Chief executive, are you willing to listen to the voices of your younger classmates?" In full: http://bit.ly/extraditionhk . Photo: Apple Daily. #hongkong pic.twitter.com/fLbC66YMBf
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          Today in Hong Kong, secondary school students held a rally. Some were wearing the eyepatch. 😢 Now in a long, snaking line of protesters waiting to go over the footbridge to the rally in Tamar. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/xgPVt6LdHP

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          The rally at Tamar was pretty large (one of multiple simultaneous rallies today in Hong Kong). We want democracy—that’s what I hear most often from the protesters. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/GiBSzic6Rv

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          Here in the Hong Kong protests, Pepe isn’t a symbol of alt-right. They adopted him as just a frog. Most have no idea of its US connotation. It’s taken some time but I’m no longer startled by it. Here are some Pepes with eyepatches from today—for the medic who got shot in the eye.pic.twitter.com/BZP1QpUUpg

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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted antiELAB

          This from last night. This morning, there are more reports of arrests of organizers of peaceful protests. Hong Kong's government is simultaneously: not democratically elected; not responding to *very* large peaceful rallies; arresting peaceful dissidents.https://twitter.com/anti_elab/status/1168569274778079232 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

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          antiELAB @anti_elab
          9.2 in Prince Edward. A female, pressed onto the ground by riot police. She was not resisting, but reached to the hem of the officer’s trousers for help - the officer then stepped on her hand, which gave a cracking sound. #HongKongProtests pic.twitter.com/jxzxZih4g4
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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          That's the context in which, the Hong Kong protesters tell me, they've turned to more confrontational tactics. There's a lot of discussion here about what might finally make the government respond to the people. After this morning's press conference by Carrie Lam, a muddier path.

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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          I'm seeing a lot of nonsense like this. Hong Kong protesters are tenacious and brave. They use water against tear gas canisters just like protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo—not liquid nitrogen ffs. So many comments about how "Asian protesters" are smart, high-IQ—alt-right themes.pic.twitter.com/cPvl1pcLsN

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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          There is a bizarre desire to racialize protesters into a hierarchy. I've seen protests up close in a range of countries, and Hong Kong's protesters are definitely brave, persistent and smart—and use almost identical set of tools on the ground as did those in Middle East.

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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          For the record, this is the key difference I’ve noticed between protest technology *on the ground* between Hong Kong and Middle East: saline is used more here. Otherwise it’s mostly the same: helmets, masks, gloves, water and a lot of heart and bravery.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1168734985315999744 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          Replying to @mastershalum @tressiemcphd
          And they are not. It's water. The only difference I've seen is that they use (the more expensive) vials of saline to wash tear gas from eyes rather than diluted Maalox which everyone else uses. I know, because I've been close enough to be tear gassed everywhere. Saline is nicer!
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        11. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          For yet another night, protesters have gathered at the Prince Edward station—where the police charged in to the subway station and beat up and pepper sprayed almost randomly. The station is closed but people have been leaving flowers. The Mong Kok police station next to it.pic.twitter.com/E6yLJdaV6r

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        12. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          Here’s how the Prince Edward station looked yesterday—flowers, a lone protester and some posters. Just as I was leaving, a row of riot police stationed themselves in front of it. Riot police are becoming increasingly common in Hong Kong. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/m0tWmUIUuJ

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        13. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          The police were trying to arrest someone at Prince Edward station. Protesters end up chanting “triads” at them. And a line of older peacemakers tried to hold them back, and got pepper-sprayed. And now, the station is full of riot police. Common sight these days in Hong Kong.pic.twitter.com/sggx56IrD7

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        14. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          The level of police-populace tensions is so high in Hong Kong that they cannot arrest one person without being surrounded by protesters, being heckled, and having to call in riot cops. Thirty robocop geared police are still here. Someone was just carried out on a stretcher. :-(pic.twitter.com/UO9QOaZESg

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        15. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          This is a video of the riot police retreat from Prince Edward station. The protesters have long left. As they retreat, the police are being heckled by passengers and people who clearly look like residents.pic.twitter.com/4Iov9TlaHQ

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        16. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted isabella steger

          Okay so the injured person was someone tackled by the police, suspected spinal injury. :-( It appears that it took a firefighter intervening to get some attention. See thread. (Sorry for sideway videos! On mobile!)https://twitter.com/stegersaurus/status/1168916795010494467 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          isabella stegerVerified account @stegersaurus
          first aider explaining now that he suspected the person had a fracture in his neck or spine bc he was having serious breathing difficulties. police were obstructing and refused to untie the boys hands. first aider said victim was slipping into unconsciousness.
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        17. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          Maybe they could tell that liquid nitrogen makes no sense, and all this is just people projecting their stereotypes onto them? Those degrees help you be smarter. (Below tweet is an attempt at joke about smart Hong Kong protesters using “liquid nitrogen.”) https://twitter.com/graemeburton/status/1168664933812310020 …

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        18. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          So yeah, it’s not liquid nitrogen (no kidding!) and all that viral stuff is either geek fantasies, or, worse, alt-right myth-making about IQ and race. Hong Kong’s protesters are brave, young, and vulnerable. They need solidarity not this nonsense. See:https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1168731678392504320 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          I'm seeing a lot of nonsense like this. Hong Kong protesters are tenacious and brave. They use water against tear gas canisters just like protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo—not liquid nitrogen ffs. So many comments about how "Asian protesters" are smart, high-IQ—alt-right themes. pic.twitter.com/cPvl1pcLsN
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        19. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Daniel Victor

          Carrie Lam has finally announced the withdrawal of the extradition bill that initially sparked the protests. But no amnesty for arrestees, no independent inquiry into police, and no democratic reforms. I don’t think they’re reading the public mood well.https://twitter.com/bydanielvictor/status/1169192151386746881 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Daniel VictorVerified account @bydanielvictor
          This is a big win for Hong Kong protesters, but don’t expect the demonstrations to stop. It’s just one of their five demands, and it’s one that had been taken off the front burner lately https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1169188131557511170 …
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        20. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Sep 2019

          Ugh this nonsense now has a "Bernie's Tweets" version—vinegar rather than liquid nitrogen, but still "chemistry grads". 7.5 million views! See upthread on why this kind of fetishization—via alt-right or via geek fantasies—is harmful to Hong Kong's brave but vulnerable protesters.pic.twitter.com/2wKdZPKmI1

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        21. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          Also, see my other thread on how the copypasta "experts" following Hong Kong only via journalists (who often exaggerate or focus on what's visually attractive or sounds novel to them) or tweets can end up being harmful, too.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1169323269297717248 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          Scary state of the "security advice" sector. This person who gets funding to provide security advice/training to activists has no idea about the *standard* police warning flag in Hong Kong and thinks it's a protester tactic. Such ignorance would be funny if it weren't dangerous. https://twitter.com/roryireland/status/1165270513792557063 …
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        22. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Sep 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Pinboard

          Hong Kong protests aren’t dying down because their other demands are no less important to them—especially the independent investigation into police conduct and amnesty for the “riot” charges. 1100+ were arrested and some of face 10+ years. Not over by far.https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1170324067674537984 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Pinboard @Pinboard
          Another night another fight. Prince Edward station has become the locus of nightly protests. Soon they'll need to build a press box. Half of Nathan Rd is closed pic.twitter.com/tLLqsOhkCN
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        23. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Sep 2019

          Crowd waiting outside the Queen Elizabeth Stadium where Carrie Lam had a dialogue with 150 people inside. They’re all holding up their hands in a gesture of five, chanting five demands, not one less—including universal suffrage! Fourth month. #HongKongProtests still high energy.pic.twitter.com/XLhCahBczI

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        24. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Sep 2019

          Yes, yes, I’m back in Hong Kong. I should probably start a new thread. 😬 With a 12 hour time difference, I need some “ga yao” myself but preferably in the form of a bottle of Pocari—a protester staple here.

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        25. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Sep 2019

          Protest research is hard to plan. Who knows when they’ll pop up? How long will it last? You do what you can while it continues. Gratitude here to my colleague @smalljones who guest lectured to cover my classes during the Arab Spring! He’s still doing it! (Win for the students!)

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        26. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Sep 2019

          The protesters just sang “Glory to Hong Kong” which has become their anthem. A few weeks ago, this didn’t exist. Now they all know it, and often sing it hand over heart.pic.twitter.com/7rUd9iJfqW

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        27. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Sep 2019

          MLK, Mandela, Havel, Churchill and others as voiceover for the promo for the 9/29 protests! It is going to be a busy weekend, with the fifth anniversary of the Umbrella Movement and the 70th anniversary of mainland China both coming up! https://twitter.com/tomgrundy/status/1177239068846878720/video/1 …

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        28. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Sep 2019

          Tonight’s rally in Hong Kong on detainees and police misconduct, was pretty large. But the big one is tomorrow: a “global anti-totalitarianism march” followed on October 1st by a “wear black” day on the anniversary of mainland China’s founding. Big weekend for #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/zkfBv8zTxJ

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        29. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2019

          The crowd coming out of the subway for the fifth anniversary of the Umbrella revolution rally is so big and dense that we can barely move. Popular chant: “five demands, not one less.” More and more protesters tell me the fifth, universal suffrage, is the most important to them.pic.twitter.com/DJ1C8iYUI4

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        30. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2019

          The rally had barely started, but I already saw the red flag and police are already using pepper spray on people entering the rally. Meanwhile, a small orchestra (right past the pepper spray) is practicing “Glory to Hong Kong”—the anthem that didn’t even exist until recently.pic.twitter.com/OsoVrHPo5E

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        31. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2019

          On its fifth anniversary, the Umbrella movement is back where it started, occupying Harcourt road. It’s tear gas, pepper spray, water cannons (blue water laced with something that burns) against a sea of umbrellas. But the movement is different—tenor, goals & methods all evolved.pic.twitter.com/kuo8CrrwlY

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