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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      Causeway Bay. Chanting “Hongkongers, rise up.” It’s a new slogan.pic.twitter.com/5zmoMw5DOA

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪

      Another Hong Kong protester appears to have been shot. 😢 In the Hong Kong island side, it’s only firefighters operating so far, the police have stayed away. (Protesters do start fires but also clear the way for fire engines and applaud them).https://twitter.com/xinqisu/status/1180119820479520769 …

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      Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪 @XinqiSu
      #BREAKING A protester was shot by a live ammunition in left thigh in Yuen Long tonight, Oriental Daily reported per source. 元朗夜後爆亂 消息指警員再射實彈 有示威者中槍 http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20191004/bkn-20191004205413172-1004_00822_001.html … 更多勁爆猛料,請下載《東網》APP: http://bit.ly/2w9ebqD 
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      I spoke too soon! A line with 30 and riot police appeared near wan chai MTR. Literally within 30 seconds the crowd I was with—thousands—disappeared into the side streets. “Be watering”. A young woman came out of a restaurant there and yelled “triads” (gangsters) at them.pic.twitter.com/Faqt3B0xSQ

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      The police above were joined by another 100 riot police and maybe five raptors. But everyone here is long gone. The police are also leaving in the other direction. Hong Kong’s political crisis has been outsourced to the police and it’s not really working.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Hong Kong, the city that doesn’t need any step tracking apps. I end up walking 7 to 10 hours some days as transit shuts down routinely now. (August 31 was the turning point for that.) https://twitter.com/lwcalex/status/1180133651691868161 …

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      The attempt to overturn the mask ban in courts has failed. The law goes into effect now: a year in jail for wearing a mask. HK island protests largely dispersed via "be water" but Kowloon still active. (I left as I won't be interviewing under the conditions about to happen).

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Charles Mok 莫乃光

      A Hong Kong legislator says as of midnight one country, two systems is over. Seeing a lot of commentary to that effect: "Hong Kong has fallen".https://twitter.com/charlesmok/status/1180151078387503104 …

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      Charles Mok 莫乃光Verified account @charlesmok
      It's midnight in Hong Kong. One Country Two Systems has died. Hong Kong has entered the era of totalitarian dictatorship. 午夜。 一國兩制已死。 香港進入獨裁專權。 pic.twitter.com/HJzQB28W4r
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Derek Bruff

      The mask ban has started. However, they don't really use facial recognition software here (though some protesters mention it as a potential future concern). The threat is about old-fashioned recognition (by humans!) and legal and personal consequences.https://twitter.com/derekbruff/status/1180195754591150080 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Derek Bruff @derekbruff
      My crypto course always features current events. Today, one of my students mentioned that Honk Kong officials have banned face masks during protests, presumably to enable facial recognition software. cc @hypervisible https://fortune.com/2019/10/04/hong-kong-protests-mask-ban-surveillance-anonymity-facial-recognition/ …
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      This morning in Hong Kong the whole subway line (the city runs on it! Normally, it's amazing) and many malls (Hong Kong's quasi-public spaces) are closed. Virtual lock-down, but many protests are scheduled. I suspect many will walk, as usual. https://twitter.com/pakwayne/status/1180282846470012929 …

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted LΞΞ Griƒƒiths

      A bewilderingly common sentiment among the so-called left. People are marching into live fire in Iraq (dozens dead), protesting IMF austerity in Ecuador, putting everything on the line in Hong Kong and somehow US/UK is behind it (via mind control?).https://twitter.com/DrumEQ/status/1180291644303785985 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      LΞΞ Griƒƒiths @DrumEQ
      .@zeynep @MarietjeSchaake @RussiaUN and how many of these protest movements have ties to the integrity initiative + to the US' (CIA) NED that helps dissident groups flourish UK&US trying to apply pressure so that the Empires deliver regime change, evil never sleeps @AsaWinstanley https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1180282120171712512 …
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2019

      It's not left to look at people risking so much—their very lives—to fight corruption and authoritarianism and see the NED or UK. It's racist and dehumanizing. Neither Hongkongers nor Iraqis are stupid puppets so easily manipulated to risk their lives because of NED powerpoints.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Oct 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          An analysis of the government’s gamble that’s underlying the Hong Kong’s mask ban. https://twitter.com/comparativist/status/1180434360702386176 …

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Oct 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          First day of the mask ban in Hong Kong, and the police are tackling a young couple in the middle of Central. I don’t think the ban is even valid people in groups less than 30. The arbitrariness of implementation ans fear may well be the goal. https://twitter.com/lwcalex/status/1180437985747066880 …

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Nov 2019

          Candidates in Hong Kong (who are allowed to run for what limited seats are elected) are pretty clearly signaling their stance—fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong. (Yes I’m back for a bit!)pic.twitter.com/N8GeJ6s4Tv

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          Tying this mini-thread about Hong Kong’s Lennon walls to the main thread. (Typing while watching protesters help domestic workers in Victoria Park pack up to escape the teargas. Yes, already).https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1190475183313735682 …

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          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          Lennon walls in Hong Kong are a mix of posters, graphic art, scribbles on post-it notes—layer upon layer. Tai Po was probably the biggest. It’s a people expressing themselves, communicating with each other—and also talking through their movement. A few Tai Po pics from October. pic.twitter.com/4xZ06mqCsO
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          Hard to put into words what I’m witnessing in Hong Kong. The movement is in its fifth month. Thousands arrested, many facing 10 year sentences. And yet I’m *again* in a sea of thousands of protesters, many wearing masks—telling me they will keep fighting. Tear gas out already.pic.twitter.com/8qmxsrOAVG

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          I’ve been interviewing Hong Kong protesters for months now, and today is among the most defiant I’ve heard them. It’s quite remarkable given the escalation in crack down. And it’s clear from the interviews that they realize the risks, but not willing to give up. Also a big crowd.

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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          Made it to the Edinburg rally, which is legal, with thousands of others who walked around the police blocks. This, too, was a big and defiant crowd, chanting Hong Kong slogans, still asking for universal suffrage. But now the police—well raptors—have arrived so moving on again!😬pic.twitter.com/EEqVJMWXKt

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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          So I’ve been observing the Hong Kong protesters for months now, and the so-called frontliners don’t looked thinned out or younger to me. At least not today. If anything, even though they still “be water”,l quickly, they are perhaps the least skittish I’ve seen.

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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          The app @Apple banned after being criticized by CCP mouthpiece? It’s useful for avoiding surprise tear gas. Medics have been treating these two bystanders caught in tear gas for 20 minutes. At one point she was convulsing. Someone surprised or inexperienced can end gulp a lot.😡pic.twitter.com/WtEY6fPQpu

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        11. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          * end up gulping. Anyway, thanks, @Apple.

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        12. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          Also Hong Kong...pic.twitter.com/w3aFNPjl5K

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        13. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          For example, I just walked out of a restaurant into a surprise cloud of teargas. That’s the kind of thing that the Hong Kong app banned by @Apple is useful for—not ambushing police like the ridiculous claim since it just isn’t that granular.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1190582383348719616 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          The app @Apple banned after being criticized by CCP mouthpiece? It’s useful for avoiding surprise tear gas. Medics have been treating these two bystanders caught in tear gas for 20 minutes. At one point she was convulsing. Someone surprised or inexperienced can end gulp a lot.😡 pic.twitter.com/WtEY6fPQpu
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        14. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          Anyone know what these are? No markings. Fingers for scale!pic.twitter.com/5QQc3v3I2n

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        15. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Hong Kong Hermit

          Okay so these are probably the new Chinese ones.https://twitter.com/hongkonghermit/status/1190605331665014785 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Hong Kong HermitVerified account @HongKongHermit
          Replying to @zeynep
          That’s the new (believed to be Chinese-made) tear gas cans that are replacing the US made ones. Longer, has a screw-thread. Yours appears to have crumpled upon impact. pic.twitter.com/TqL7d0T6TE
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        16. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          By the way, still a large police presence around Sheung Wan, and no press around. They were chasing someone a moment ago. (A few medics did go along with the chase).pic.twitter.com/ouAAXIdIy2

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        17. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeremy B. Merrill

          Another question to follow up: Is YouTube disproportionately recommending Chinese government’s false assertions about Hong Kong protesters? Why is it recommended at all? As usual, independent researchers don’t have the full data we’d need.https://twitter.com/jeremybmerrill/status/1190002705793781761 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Jeremy B. Merrill @jeremybmerrill
          A Chinese propaganda video insinuating Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are U.S. cutouts got far more YouTube views than videos on the same topic by the BBC, NYT or WSJ. Why? YouTube's algorithm recommended it heavily, data from @gchaslot suggests. https://qz.com/1734111/did-youtube-help-chinas-anti-hong-kong-propaganda-go-viral/ …
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        18. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          At Sheung Wan, police are arresting a man who had heckled them earlier. (There is one press group filming).pic.twitter.com/CukK4ovLN2

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        19. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Mantai Chow

          I’ve seen protesters wash off tear gas from dogs and pigeons. A first for a rat!https://twitter.com/mantaichow/status/1190618535371821057 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

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          Mantai Chow @mantaichow
          This rat was not moving. People thought it might have been teargassed too. #HKprotests #HKPolice #HongKong #HongKongProtests #HongKongProtesters #HongKongProtest pic.twitter.com/HLvSg7U7Uc
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        20. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Rachel Cheung

          This is really dangerous. Hong Kong press is reporting a medic it has been hospitalized with serious burn injuries after one of these new Chinese tear gas canisters hit him in the back. I found one (see upthread), it had crumpled upon impact.https://twitter.com/rachel_cheung1/status/1190619209413251073 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Rachel CheungVerified account @rachel_cheung1
          Holes are left on Percival Street where the teargas pellets literally burnt into the ground, melting the pavement. A firstaider was severely injured in this area earlier today after one landed on his back. pic.twitter.com/L3ro4WXgxC
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        21. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted crossstream(拜登作弊)#BidenCheated

          A video getting shared a lot today. The girl gets caught and yells for the boy to leave. “Go, go.” He doesn’t, steps in between her and the police, and they both get arrested. Hong Kong protest style love.https://twitter.com/crossstreamw/status/1190182045147750402?s=21 …

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          0:28
          crossstream(拜登作弊)#BidenCheated @CrossstreamW
          令人難過😫 pic.twitter.com/xA5VOOq3pC
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        22. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          Another video making the rounds in Hong Kong. Fireman gets upset with the police for firing at his truck. He does a “WTF” and then police start shoving him around. (HK firemen have been acting quite professionally and are generally respected by protesters) https://twitter.com/galileocheng/status/1190617618190757888 …

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        23. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          And this. The guy was driving a Porsche playing the unofficial Hong Kong anthem. Got arrested. (Did someone want to drive it to the police lot??) https://twitter.com/szengaszenga/status/1190530581362118656 …

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        24. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted woppa  🎗 😷

          Just a reminder that @Apple has banned the app that the HongKongers could use to learn that the ordinary shopping mall they’re about to enter has just been stormed (or teargassed!) by riot police. I keep repeating this, but these are not minor decisions.https://twitter.com/woppa1woppa/status/1190944605102985216 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          2:13
          woppa  🎗 😷 @Woppa1Woppa
          You saw how peaceful Taikoo Cityplaza was in the previous tweet right?? Human chain, little kids skating lessons.. This is now!! Absolute havoc as #HKPolice charged in for no reason whatsoever🤬 #StandWithHongKong #HongKongProtests pic.twitter.com/HGndJFPp1Q
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        25. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Nov 2019

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ezra Cheung

          Sad turning point for Hong Kong. The 22 year-old student, Alex Chow, has died following a fall, reportedly trying to escape tear gas/police. (Sad reminder: @Apple bans apps that people in Hong Kong can use to try to avoid tear gas and police operations.)https://twitter.com/ezracheungtoto/status/1192616323672506368 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Ezra CheungVerified account @ezracheungtoto
          #BREAKING: Several medical sources have told me that the HKUST student Alex Chow has just passed away. #antiELAB #HongKongProtests https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1192589376020070400 …
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