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'Stand with Hong Kong’ shirts handed out before LA Lakers game [video]
- averros 7y agoMethinks it's quite stupid to get involved in somebody else's conflict especially if you haven't got a foggiest idea of what it is about (and, no watching TV and reading newspapers don't equip you with understanding of realities on the ground - all you get is political spin, not facts).
- ryan_j_naughton 7y agoArticle about the Taiwanese American behind the shirts: https://laist.com/2019/10/22/hong-kong-protests-staples-center-nba-lakers-clippers-t-shirts.php https://laist.com/2019/10/22/hong-kong-protests-staples-cent... Article about a smaller effort at a previous game (300 people): https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/466555-hundreds-wearing-stand-with-hong-kong-shirts-attend-nba-game-in https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/466555-hun... We need to force the hand of Western companies by making them censor people until the rest of us rise up and cause them to lose money until they support free speech. That cost will weigh heavily against the Chinese market and cause friction in the market. People in China will have to pirate games and that itself will draw attention to what's happening. People should also wear uighur detention camp awareness shirts at games. Make the cost of censorship go up. It's like when people put nytimes articles on GitHub so that China just had to DDOS github Bc they couldn't block the site (due to its tech value). [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/technology/china-appears-to-attack-github-by-diverting-web-traffic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/technology/china-appears-...