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Article 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://
by ryan_j_naughton 7y ago
Article 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-...