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Can anyone from Hong Kong help clarify what role Apple Daily has held over the past several years?

73gfg 5y ago
Last bastion of anti-establishment (CCP) press.
ngcc_hk 5y ago
It is a tabloid for the funding size. But unlike the usual tabloid, it has the other side which basically support one specific social grouping - liberal, status quo with aspiration to democracy by peaceful means (old man wish, think of martin lee and cardinal zin etc.), June 4 rememberance... That is not the young one newspaper and hence not really in the core of the movement. But it is the bedrock for a lot of anti-communist people in Hong Kong. That is why with any excuse it would be removed. Like the legislature now just of communist supported puppet, removing apple daily will left mostly pro-communist groups. Or at least dare nit to say anything groups of media. And the way the police and court deal with it, there is just an arbitrary rule on Hong Kong. It is the end of liberal (general sense or you can use free) Hong Kong.
- scruffyherder 5y ago
  What to do though?! How do we possibly get 2+ million upset about this? Clearly they can’t arrest 1/3rd the population but it’s feeling like 2047 came early.
scruffyherder 5y ago
Last ones to publish free. It’s over the CCP and open sympathetic parties own all the rest of the media. We are totally screwed.
- hhvxssegn 5y ago
  Get out if you can
est 5y ago
Buzzfeed but anti-CCP.
- agnesv 5y ago
  Great comparison of a content farm with a major news company in HK
  - est 5y ago
    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-groundwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-... more like major fake news company.
    - agnesv 5y ago
      Yes, and countless news articles daring to tell the truth to the city during the 2019-20 protests
cothread 5y ago
They're a tabloid so it's not uncommon to see occasional misinformation, that pushes the boundaries of free press, which puts them at odds with mainland China. China has been gradually asserting more control over the press, for instance it's widely understood that TVB, Hong Kong's television, is indirectly controlled and filtered by Chinese officials. Since the passage of the national security law China now has a strong legal basis to round up dissidents it does not like and silence them.
PikachuEXE 5y ago
Last press with daily paper printed. There are new some Internet only presses but not as good a wide like Apple Daily.

Last bastion of anti-establishment (CCP) press.

It is a tabloid for the funding size. But unlike the usual tabloid, it has the other side which basically support one specific social grouping - liberal, status quo with aspiration to democracy by peaceful means (old man wish, think of martin lee and cardinal zin etc.), June 4 rememberance... That is not the young one newspaper and hence not really in the core of the movement. But it is the bedrock for a lot of anti-communist people in Hong Kong. That is why with any excuse it would be removed. Like the legislature now just of communist supported puppet, removing apple daily will left mostly pro-communist groups. Or at least dare nit to say anything groups of media. And the way the police and court deal with it, there is just an arbitrary rule on Hong Kong. It is the end of liberal (general sense or you can use free) Hong Kong.

scruffyherder 5y ago
What to do though?! How do we possibly get 2+ million upset about this? Clearly they can’t arrest 1/3rd the population but it’s feeling like 2047 came early.

scruffyherder 5y ago

Last ones to publish free. It’s over the CCP and open sympathetic parties own all the rest of the media. We are totally screwed.

hhvxssegn 5y ago
Get out if you can

est 5y ago

Buzzfeed but anti-CCP.

agnesv 5y ago
Great comparison of a content farm with a major news company in HK
- est 5y ago
  https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-groundwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-... more like major fake news company.
  - agnesv 5y ago
    Yes, and countless news articles daring to tell the truth to the city during the 2019-20 protests

cothread 5y ago

They're a tabloid so it's not uncommon to see occasional misinformation, that pushes the boundaries of free press, which puts them at odds with mainland China. China has been gradually asserting more control over the press, for instance it's widely understood that TVB, Hong Kong's television, is indirectly controlled and filtered by Chinese officials. Since the passage of the national security law China now has a strong legal basis to round up dissidents it does not like and silence them.

PikachuEXE 5y ago

Last press with daily paper printed. There are new some Internet only presses but not as good a wide like Apple Daily.