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AI is a key tool for #CCP🇨🇳 to maintain control. More data makes them more powerful.
"We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It's similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology."
"Uyghur life is now about generating data."bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
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This shows how the Hong Kong courts are increasingly complicit in the suppression of Hongkongers, clamping down our rights to freedom of peaceful assembly.
These "new standards" are disproportionate and unacceptable.
#StandWithHongKong
#PoliceState twitter.com/lwcalex/status…
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Students in a school singing contest performed a song from HK band Dear Jane with lyrics that included the phrases "turbulent times" and "confront"
It was deemed "political" and they were disqualified with a demerit on their records, banned from future extracurricular activities twitter.com/StandNewsHK/st…
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4 defendants were admitted to hospital tonight in #HongKong during a 14-hour hearing over their #NSL charges.
The hearing will assume in 7 hrs, leaving little time for them to recover. Political abuse of psychiatry by a totalitarian regime on display. twitter.com/phoebe_kongwy/…
905
Starting next year, all schools have to raise the Chinese flag and sing the national anthem weekly.
Unlike democratic nations with education policies that are ultimately instituted by elected representatives, this is forced upon by unelected CCP🇨🇳 cronies.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/…
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Security officials in one of China's largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students among other “suspicious people”
Suspicious people: activists, rights lawyers, citizens.reuters.com/technology/exc…
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Carrie Lam announced this week that RTHK will partner with China Media Group (the holding group for CCTV🇨🇳) to air more programmes to “nurture a stronger sense of patriotism” among viewers.
RTHK will become state media after partnership with China’s CCTV: hongkongfp.com/2021/08/11/hon…
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A nurse carried a ton of saline solution, medical cotton swabs in areas where protest was happening with thousands of tear gas shot at the protestors...
What would you call her?
A Rioter or
A Medic ?
The same nurse in #HongKong is charged with rioting. twitter.com/inmediahk/stat…
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Greek police detained human rights activists Tsela Zoksang and @jooeysiiu after they unfurled banners at the Athens Acropolis on Sunday opposing the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as China's Games organisers prepare to receive the Olympic flame.
reuters.com/lifestyle/spor…
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The Basic Law says “the principle of trial by jury previously practised in Hong Kong shall be maintained”.
But prosecutors for the 1st national security case in HK argue that Hong Kongers do not have a constitutional or fundamental right to trial by jury.
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
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The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive
Foreign video bloggers denouncing what they say is negative coverage of China on highly controversial subjects such as Xinjiang are attracting large numbers of followers on platforms like YouTube.
BBC report bbc.com/news/world-asi…
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“No Name Political Prisoners”: Interviews with protesters who went through Hong Kong's jail system.
“With the political suppression in HK, I'm simply transferred from a small jail to a larger ‘jail’. I won't leave HK. I grew up here and this is my home.”
youtu.be/R8i6LksKEic
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“Although the election committee will be expanded from current 1200 to 1500 seats, district councillors will lose all 117 places they currently have.”
It's no longer about the sheep but rather about the number of foxes vs lions that get to decide HK's CE:
twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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National Security Law🇨🇳 can now be used to ban films that had previously been approved in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong cinema, once a cultural icon to the world, has produced generations of creative talent. Another industry the #CCP🇨🇳 has added to its kill list.
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
915
National Security Law works its magic by dismantling HK's civil society. "Secrets" pages, managed by admins sharing users' stories anoymously, are shutting down across Hong Kong. twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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Apple wanted to keep the digital keys that can unlock iCloud encryption in the United States, while Chinese officials wanted them in #CCPChina🇨🇳.
Apple complied.
They've now relocated Chinese customers' iCloud data to China, managed by a Chinese company.
macrumors.com/2021/05/17/app…
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Senior Hong Kong police officials who held commanding positions during the #721YuenLongTerrorAttack have since been promoted. #PoliceState
thestandnews.com/society/721-%E…
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Hong Kong urged to consider the official use of simplified Chinese and Mandarin.
“The 🇨🇳 state ministry also said HKSAR could cooperate with Guangdong to promote Mandarin teaching.”
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
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