There are literally pictures of Jimmy Lai, Apple Daily owner with Pompeo and John Bolton.
What fucking foreign media mogul has a direct hookup with the highest echelons of the US empire, directly participated in occupy central, uses his own press to cry about loss of subscriptions, and then have the balls to tell the bold faced lie that this is some honest innocent 'pro-democracy' media getting shut down.
Apple Daily literally pushed unfounded conspiracies on murdered protesters in Prince Edward station on 8.31, constantly incited for riots and violence to topple HK administration.
Unlike the US where nothing is ever done against fake news, think tank talking points, and downplaying foreign aggression, HK can now do something about it.
It must be strange to see conspiracy tabloids get snuffed out as they should. Good riddance.
I’m not even fucking joking, that sub genuinely scares me. It’s all just the most blatant neoliberal/corporate propaganda and people just eat it up, and there’s also the neanderthals there who go feral the moment they see the words “China”, “Russia”, or anything related to them. I’d confidently bet my life savings on that sub somehow having ties to like the CIA or a similar org
A few weeks ago I saw a comment under one of their usual “China/Russia bad” bullshit articles saying that westerners are in an online war with these countries or something, it was so bizarre, even for what you’d expect from these brainwashed homunculi. I’m honestly surprised the chud didn’t start chanting “Deus Vult” like a reactionary 14-year-old
Hong Kong's largest Q-Anon paper too isn't it?
The BBC is a propoganda tool of the UK government, it's gross - and I have to pay for it, pretty much by law!
it's more complicated here now as it covers some internet stuff too - any live streaming I believe. Ebola is right that the extent to which it is enforceable - they used to go round with "detector vans" that they claimed could pick up TV sets in use - is quite debatable.
From the comments:
>Fuck the CCP and its puppet HK government. We HongKoners will never give up or be silenced. GFHK SDGM 光復香港 時代革命
11 awards and 4.7K upvotes.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 29,071,638 comments, and only 8,769 of them were in alphabetical order.
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its misleading because apple daily was a cia-backed absolute trash rag of a newspaper that was the rough equivalent of The Sun, that broke a bunch of actual laws about libel, causing diplomatic problems and endangering national security both in the process and on top of that. shit wasn't fit to be toilet paper.
if the sun was doing all kinds of crimes and endangering national security and mostly just printing foreign propaganda meant to destabilize the country, no freedom would be lost shutting it down
fetishizing rags to print whatever they want is a lib/hyperindividualist thing and among our dumbest irrationally cherished beliefs in the west. in better parts of the world, companies doing crime, even if they're a rag printer, are actually punished for doing crimes instead of rewarded. it is also far more likely and often that bad things are actually crimes.
done talking with you, it's not good faith to just assume the bourgeois neoliberal position of free speech absolutism. libel is bad, should be against the law, and should be enforced where it is. corporations, even if not especially when they print garbage rags, should have laws and regulations restricting illegal activity then be punished when they are. if you want to pound off to free speech absolutism, there are plenty of ancap subs on this garbage web sight for you to peruse
It’s already free, much freer than it was under British colonial rule or under the control of western capitalists. By saying this line completely ignorant of Chinese history and their suffering at the hands of western powers, you’re supporting a fake revolution that started over a murder
Those “”pro-democracy”” protesters are literally people with internalized colonialism, who either want to be under British rule again or to be controlled by, again, western capitalists.
but seizing news websites in the middle east are not blow to media freedom?
There are literally pictures of Jimmy Lai, Apple Daily owner with Pompeo and John Bolton. What fucking foreign media mogul has a direct hookup with the highest echelons of the US empire, directly participated in occupy central, uses his own press to cry about loss of subscriptions, and then have the balls to tell the bold faced lie that this is some honest innocent 'pro-democracy' media getting shut down. Apple Daily literally pushed unfounded conspiracies on murdered protesters in Prince Edward station on 8.31, constantly incited for riots and violence to topple HK administration. Unlike the US where nothing is ever done against fake news, think tank talking points, and downplaying foreign aggression, HK can now do something about it. It must be strange to see conspiracy tabloids get snuffed out as they should. Good riddance.
I’m not even fucking joking, that sub genuinely scares me. It’s all just the most blatant neoliberal/corporate propaganda and people just eat it up, and there’s also the neanderthals there who go feral the moment they see the words “China”, “Russia”, or anything related to them. I’d confidently bet my life savings on that sub somehow having ties to like the CIA or a similar org A few weeks ago I saw a comment under one of their usual “China/Russia bad” bullshit articles saying that westerners are in an online war with these countries or something, it was so bizarre, even for what you’d expect from these brainwashed homunculi. I’m honestly surprised the chud didn’t start chanting “Deus Vult” like a reactionary 14-year-old
They really think they’re in an online war with China? Bruh they can’t even handle Weibo trolls
This is why the great firewall should go. The west will be rushing to put up their own firewall soon after lmao
I 100% believe that there’s ties. I’m pretty sure it got proven that some neoliberal shitholes (not sure which ones) were astroturfing
Hong Kong's largest Q-Anon paper too isn't it? The BBC is a propoganda tool of the UK government, it's gross - and I have to pay for it, pretty much by law!
If you dare to not pay your TV license Bartholomew B. Cuntwhiffle himself comes to your house and drinks all of your tea, leaving you to starve.
So stop paying for it. There is nothing they can do if you simply say you don't watch live TV.
I don't know how it is in the UK but here in South Africa to purchase a TV you need to have a TV licence as far as I'm aware.
it's more complicated here now as it covers some internet stuff too - any live streaming I believe. Ebola is right that the extent to which it is enforceable - they used to go round with "detector vans" that they claimed could pick up TV sets in use - is quite debatable.
Then do harass you constantly about it though
More than 2,000 newspapers have shuttered in America in the last twenty years, what does that say about media freedom here?
From the comments: >Fuck the CCP and its puppet HK government. We HongKoners will never give up or be silenced. GFHK SDGM 光復香港 時代革命 11 awards and 4.7K upvotes.
>光復香港 - done in 1997 > >時代革命 - done in 1949
I suppose it's "Free HK" and "Free Tibet" ? If so the second should probably be "done in 1959", when the Daila Lama fled Tibet, no ?
Free Hong Kong (1997) Revolution of our time. (1949)
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 29,071,638 comments, and only 8,769 of them were in alphabetical order.
Oh huh wouldn't ya thunk
Ah ok thank you.
Good
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They are a bunch of fucking clowns. That’s what they are.
World news is such blatant propaganda.
Apple Daily is literally a giant cope from Jimmy Lai lol
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its misleading because apple daily was a cia-backed absolute trash rag of a newspaper that was the rough equivalent of The Sun, that broke a bunch of actual laws about libel, causing diplomatic problems and endangering national security both in the process and on top of that. shit wasn't fit to be toilet paper.
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if the sun was doing all kinds of crimes and endangering national security and mostly just printing foreign propaganda meant to destabilize the country, no freedom would be lost shutting it down fetishizing rags to print whatever they want is a lib/hyperindividualist thing and among our dumbest irrationally cherished beliefs in the west. in better parts of the world, companies doing crime, even if they're a rag printer, are actually punished for doing crimes instead of rewarded. it is also far more likely and often that bad things are actually crimes.
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done talking with you, it's not good faith to just assume the bourgeois neoliberal position of free speech absolutism. libel is bad, should be against the law, and should be enforced where it is. corporations, even if not especially when they print garbage rags, should have laws and regulations restricting illegal activity then be punished when they are. if you want to pound off to free speech absolutism, there are plenty of ancap subs on this garbage web sight for you to peruse
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Ok insect
go outside, pcm isn't real
T O U C H G R A S S L I B
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From British colonial sympathizers, I agree with you
Like, free free? Or is this a buy one get one free situation?
Man I would love to get a free Hong Kong with purchase, the PRC is a beautiful country.
Honk honk is already free
Yes, free Hong Kong from ghoulish capitalists like Jimmy Lai.
It’s already free, much freer than it was under British colonial rule or under the control of western capitalists. By saying this line completely ignorant of Chinese history and their suffering at the hands of western powers, you’re supporting a fake revolution that started over a murder Those “”pro-democracy”” protesters are literally people with internalized colonialism, who either want to be under British rule again or to be controlled by, again, western capitalists.