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How Hong Kong Became a Testing Ground for an ‘Anti-Facebook’ Movement

• nailer 6y ago
  > Facebook told VICE World News that the Tai Po group was suspended due to “repeatedly violating hate speech policy,” a finding that the group’s administrators oppose. Translation from the 'oppose' page: https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20201205/OIYL3RPCUVAKPPSXC6NEQLAJQY/ https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20201205/OIYL3RPCUVAKPPSXC6N... > "Tai Po Tai Po" criticized in the MeWe group that Facebook's censorship of speech was helping tyranny to crush democratic freedoms. At present, a number of yellow shops or online media have started to set up new pages in MeWe, and district councillors have joined MeWe It seems 'hate speech' was used as a prefix to silence discussion of topics the CCP likes to avoid, i.e. the CCP's interference in HK's affairs (which the CCP agreed to stay out of in Sino-British Joint Declaration).