Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publish a gallery of predators who massively crackdown on #PressFreedom, including Carrie Lam and Xi Jinping.

https://rsf.org/en/news/rsfs-2021-press-freedom-predators-gallery-old-tyrants-two-women-and-european

Canada’s Hong Kong diaspora helps new arrivals with jobs, housing, psychotherapy

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-hong-kong-diaspora-helps-new-arrivals-with-jobs-housing-psychotherapy-2021-07-04/

Facebook, Twitter, Google have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could stop offering their services in the city if authorities proceed with planned changes to data-protection laws that could make them liable for the malicious sharing of individuals’ information online.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-twitter-google-warn-planned-hong-kong-tech-law-could-drive-them-out-11625483036

(International reactions: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) | Press freedom)

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The first two women predators are both from Asia. One is Carrie Lam, who heads a government that was still democratic when she took over. The chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region since 2017, Lam has proved to be the puppet of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and now openly supports his predatory policies towards the media. They led to the closure of Hong Kong’s leading independent newspaper, Apple Daily, on 24 June and the jailing of its founder, Jimmy Lai, a 2020 RSF Press Freedom laureate.

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Source: RSF’s 2021 “Press freedom predators” gallery – old tyrants, two women and a European

https://twitter.com/RSF_inter/status/1411940172724326401?s=20

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Portrait of Carrie LAM

When Carrie Lam was appointed as Chief Executive of Hong Kong in 2017, she quickly extended governmental press accreditation to online media outlets, giving the impression that she might help to improve press freedom. But Lam soon showed her true colours as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s puppet and has since consistently tried to defend his indefensible censorship policies under the name of “patriotism.”

The draft amendment she introduced in 2019, allowing extradition to Mainland China, including the extradition of journalists of whom Beijing disapproved, triggered mass protests. During those protests, journalists were subjected to physical violence by the police, violence that Lam kept refusing to recognise. She went on to praise the National Security Law that Beijing imposed in June 2020 so that it could intervene directly in Hong Kong in order to arbitrarily punish what it regarded as “terrorism”, “secession”, “subversion”, and “foreign interference.” Punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty, these charges opened the way to arbitrary arrests of journalists.

Carrie Lam has relentlessly targeted symbols of press freedom in Hong Kong. By freezing the financial assets of Apple Daily, one of the few mainstream Chinese-language media outlets still openly critical of Beijing, she forced the newspaper to shut down in June 2021. Lam also orchestrated the judicial harassment of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a 2020 RSF Press Freedom Prize laureate, and former legislator and former journalist Claudia Mo, who were arrested in 2021 and charged under the National Security Law. Lastly, Lam launched a full-blown intimidation campaign against public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), appointed a new director of broadcasting tasked with setting up an internal censorship system, and took editorial interference to the next level by imposing her own daily talk show, which was broadcast for a month from 28 April 2021.

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Source

https://rsf.org/en/predator/carrie-lam

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Police investigating bomb threat against Vitasoy

Police were called on Monday to investigate a bomb threat made against drinks company Vitasoy, sources said. The force said it received a report from an employee at around 11am regarding claims made online that a bomb had been planted at a company on Ho Tin Street, Tuen Mun. Officers found nothing after conducting a search of the scene. The case was being treated as criminal intimidation and no arrests had been made to date. Vitasoy is mired in controversy following the online circulation of a memo which offered the company's condolences to the family of an employee who died after stabbing a policeman on July 1.Following calls on the mainland for a boycott of the firm, Vitasoy said a member of staff had written the memo and circulated it without authorisation. The company said it reserves the right to take legal action against the worker, describing the memo as "extremely inappropriate".On Monday, shares of Vitasoy were down about 15 percent during trading, their biggest single-day drop since its listing in 1994, before rebounding and closing 11.7 percent lower at HK$25.95.

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Three Big Tech social media giants are threatening to stop providing their services to residents of Hong Kong over China’s newly proposed data laws, which would make the companies liable for the malicious sharing of users’ private details online.

https://rebelne.ws/3yvCShH

THE EZRA LEVANT SHOW:

A “Civil Liberties” Group Calls for the Burning of More Churches

GUEST: Gordon G. Chang on the Communist Party of China's 100th anniversary.

https://rebelne.ws/3wjxg8L

#CarrieLam is 1 of the 2 women who are listed as #PressFreedom predator. But she is only a puppet. The biggest freedom predator is #CCP.

Social media & the internet is our last line of defense. They are the last thing that separates #HongKong & #China. It's the last place where we, #HKers, can enjoy our freedom. Without them, people outside of #HK will not be able to know what happens to the people of HK. Similar to #Xinjiang, #CCP can build a re-education camp without anyone noticing it.

Before the firewall is built, we need to prepare to stay connected. Purchase a VPN, relocate all your social media accounts, register for #Mewe & #Gab & also prepare for a backup.

One step closer to CCP’s infiltration in the UK.

Chinese-owned firm acquires UK’s largest semiconductor manufacturer

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/05/chinese-owned-firm-acquires-uks-largest-semiconductor-manufacturer

Currently, MEP Eroglu is pushing for a lifeboat scheme for #HKers, ending extradition treaties, UN special Envoy for HK and #BoycottBeijing2022. We are sincerely thankful for his work & effort.

https://twitter.com/EnginEroglu_FW/status/1412412171263283201?s=19

'Mourners for police attacker will become terrorists'

Since implementation of NSL, being humane is illegal.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1599467-20210706.htm

🇬🇧 Britain’s main opposition Labour Party on Tuesday urged ministers and the royal family to snub the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unless China allows the UN to probe rights abuse claims.

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/07/uk-party-urges-officials-to-snub-beijing-2022-games/

Japan's deputy prime minister said the country needed to defend Taiwan with the United States if the island was invaded,

"If a major problem took place in Taiwan, it would not be too much to say that it could relate to a survival-threatening situation (for Japan),"

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-aso-peaceful-solution-desirable-any-taiwan-contingency-2021-07-06/

Britain must improve BN(O) visa scheme to protect vulnerable Hong Kong youths, says UK Home Affairs Committee

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/07/britain-must-improve-bno-visa-scheme-to-protect-vulnerable-hong-kong-youths-says-uk-home-affairs-committee/