My Life. My Choice.

Stand with Hong Kong. If not now, when? If not us, who?

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Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

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A corner of Hong Kong

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#hongkong

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Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. 2024

[mrjinx87]

FUN FACT: I’m actually *further* to the left now than I was in my 20s!

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I saw someone write recently (paraphrased), “They said ‘you’ll get more conservative as you get older’ and what they didn’t realize they meant was ‘you’ll get greedier and more paranoid as you get richer’ [which is true, there are psych studies] and what they didn’t count on is that no one gets rich any more”

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ooh, quoting that again for emphasis: “what they didn’t count on is that no one gets rich any more”

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Bubbles 🫧

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Wallpapers: Sailor Guardians

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An Interesting Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a small city with 7 milions population. The government just ban (again) evening restaurant dine-in. You read it correctly. From 6pm to 5am, eating in a restaurant is not allowed. But you are welcome to dine in before 6pm. Maybe the viruses are just start working after 6pm.

Also, libraries, museums, beaches, playground are closed. But schools are not. Education is important. Kids must not skip school. And most adults are still need to go to work. Work from home is not that popular here. We go to school and work everyday by public transportation, mass public transportation. The kind that you need to push or be pushed to get on at rush hours.

There are easily thousands of people in a metro station at rush hours. You are basically exchanging air with thousands of strangers in a closed area. And you cannot go out with more than three friends / family members because the government ban gathering of more than four people.

And the funniest thing is, the top government officials attended a birthday party of a China official. And there are 170 guests. I thought gathering of more the 4 is banned? Nevermind. Among the 170 guests, one got covid-19. Now all 170 guests and the lucky birthday man have been sent to quarantine camp for 14 days.

To summarize, you can do whatever you want if you are a high ranking official. And for the rest of us, just follow all the rules they give you, no matter how silly they are. Go to work. Go to school. Get on the train and be packed like sardines. Buy a take away dinner and eat at the park. Go out separately with your family members because you can't afford the HK$5000 fine per person if they charge you gathering with more than four people. By the way, $5000 x 170 is quite a lot of money. I wonder if the party goers will be fined.

7 Jan 2022 ‡ midnight whine

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No news is not good news

Hong Kong government is destorying our press freedom. If you dare to say anything bad, you either close your business or go behind bars. Sometimes it is both.

The news platforms we lost in the past six months:

24 Jun 2021: Apple Daily

29 Dec 2021: Stand News

04 Jan 2022: CitizenNews

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Source

[eirianerisdar]

Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy newspaper to close as Beijing tightens its grip

One year was all it took for a Beijing-imposed National Security Law to take down Hong Kong's largest and loudest pro-democracy newspaper.

My city is dying, and our greatest voice for press freedom now burning at the stake.

I am already grieving, but how long will it take for us to die completely? A slow death of suffocation, as we drown in crimson blood laced with yellow stars?

[twoohugs]

Apple Daily is not just the "biggest" pro-democracy paper; at the moment, it is the ONLY pro-democracy paper.

It was the only paper that refused to print the government's propaganda ad on its front page, and from now on we can only choose between mouthpieceA and mouthpieceB.

Apple Daily is far from a perfect newspaper, but seeing the only major media standing up for freedom get forcefully brought down like this brings me nothing but devestation. What more are we going to lose? What do we even have left to lose? This sense of suffocation is horrible and terrifying.

[learning-living]

It is heartbreaking to see Apple Daily shuts down. It should up to the readers to decide whether the newspaper is worthy or not. It should never be the government's decision. Without Apple Daily, who is going to monitor and question the authority?

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No news is not always good news.

Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily is forced to close by the Hong Kong authorities. We should never have only one voice in the society.

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Hongkonger waiting at midnight to buy the last printed copy of Apple Daily. Photo by Stand news.

The last printed copy of Apple Daily will be published on 24 June 2021, marks the end of the 26 year of the newspaper. Apple Daily says they are printing 1,000,000 copies.

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Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy newspaper to close as Beijing tightens its grip

One year was all it took for a Beijing-imposed National Security Law to take down Hong Kong's largest and loudest pro-democracy newspaper.

Hong Kong (CNN BusinessOne year was all it took for a Beijing-imposed National Security Law to take down Hong Kong's largest and loudest pro-democracy newspaper.

Next Media announced Wednesday that Apple Daily, its flagship tabloid, would publish its final copy Thursday due to an untenable environment in which its journalists had been arrested and millions of dollars in assets had been frozen. Its digital platform will cease operations on the same day, the company said in a statement.

The news sent a deep chill through Hong Kong's media industry and undermined government claims the new legislation would not diminish press freedom.

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A sad news to every Hongkonger