throwaway1997

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by throwaway1997 7y ago
You can't fire 2 million+ people in a city with a population of 7 million
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Most HKers would not see that as a problem. The city thrived under British rule.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
It's not strictly illegal but it's antisocial behaviour and the government didn't do anything when local residents raised their concerns.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Ignoring the fact that 95% of Hong Kong people are ethnically Chinese...
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
They were softcore sex workers soliciting in the middle of public parks. It's nothing to do with their country of origin.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Depends on your ISP. There are cables from Europe and the Americas to China but they are very expensive and congested. HK is also congested but there is much more bandwidth and it's a lot cheaper.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
It's referring to a specific event on June 12th where police referred to a peaceful protest as a riot.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
It's pretty easy to put them out. Here is an alternative method that was used before the thermos method was discovered: https://twitter.com/alexhofford/status/1155514310308896768 Just behind the frontline is
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
The failure of teargas to disperse crowds is cited as one of the reasons for quickly bringing the water cannons into service, despite concerns related to using them in the very densely populated streets of HK.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Yes, an enormous amount of data crosses the border from HK into China
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
There is currently no censorship in Hong Kong and no laws which would require them to censor anything.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
China can't cut HK off from the internet. Almost all Chinese internet traffic is routed through Hong Kong, not the other way around.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
In the mainland there are only a few messaging apps that work and they are all either unencrypted or backdoored
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
We tried to use it this year but it got overloaded on the first day.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
The protestors aren't using the encryption features. They just don't want their phone numbers to be revealed as being associated with the groups used to coordinate the demonstrations.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Ah so the solution to inequality is to not lift the poor up but to pull the successful down like crabs in a bucket [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
You live in a Tier 1 city. Anhui, your example of the sticks, is mostly Tier 2. You have barely experienced most of China and have lived as an expat and think you can speak for the Chinese people?
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Why? None of the demands violate the Joint Declaration or Basic Law.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Even us locals suffer during the summer. It easily reached 35C with up to 90% humidity.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
2 million turned up. Now how many support the protests and were unable to/didn't want to turn up to protests? Many people are very old, work on Sundays, wouldn't be allowed by their parents (people typically live with their p
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
The very people who are in charge of the mainland have a lot of money that they want to either park in the west or hedge against the house of cards that they are building. There is currently only one route for this money to go and rolling i
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Chexit would never happen. We mainly want the status quo, preferably with universal suffrage so that we can have a say in which policies are tabled and so that our leaders are accountable to us rather than the central government.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Chinese can be an adjective or a noun. Most will accept the adjective e.g "Chinese culture" but will not accept the noun e.g "Wong is a Chinese"
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Currently many Hong Kong sites, protected by cloudflare, are under a huge DDOS attack.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Our train cards (Octopus card) are often linked to our bank accounts so that we can use the Automatic Add Value Service (AAVS). The only people travelling to Causeway Bay and from Admiralty at that time would be protestors so it would be fa
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Hong Kong Free Post is considered to be a reputable news source
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Most of the signs were in either Chinese or bilingual (English on one side, Chinese on the other). Because we are a bilingual city but also so that western media could understand what we are protesting about. Obviously the western media use
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Mostly used Telegram and LIHKG (local forum). Tried to use Firechat but it stopped working properly before we ever needed it.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
These online petitions tend to be largely filled in by people from North of the border. There is no way of verifying that the signatories are Hong Kong people (the only validation is the last four digits of HKID which can be any four digit
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Your assumption is that I am using "uneducated" as an insult rather than a fact.

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