Breaking: Major protest organizer, #CivilHumanRightsFront, has announced to disband.

Hong Kong: Closure of prominent rights group 'signals a concerning domino effect'

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/hong-kong-closure-prominent-rights-group-signals-concerning-domino-effect

China ready for ‘friendly and cooperative’ relations with Taliban.

While everyone is eyeing on the situation in Afghanistan, #CCP is seeking every opportunity, to stretch its influence including supporting an organization that is known to be an extremist & a threat to #HumanRights.

#ccp_is_terrorist
https://app.hongkongfp.com/2021/08/16/china-ready-for-friendly-and-cooperative-relations-with-taliban/

Dr. Ed Feulner: Uncertain Future of Hong Kong's Businesses; How It May Trigger US China Decoupling | #TalkingPoints With David Zhang

🔥WATCH HERE 👉https://youtu.be/tkBJdt9MncA

Beijing says disbanded Hong Kong protest coalition is ‘daydreaming’ to think it can escape prosecution, as police vow action.

The #CivilHumanRightsFront was legal for 19 years & all of a sudden, it becomes illegal because #CCP wants them to. Following their logic, the #HKPolice is illegal as well since they'd helped to organize all these protests together.

#CCPLogic
#CCPChina
https://app.hongkongfp.com/2021/08/16/beijing-says-disbanded-hong-kong-protest-coalition-is-daydreaming-to-think-it-can-escape-prosecution-as-police-vow-action/

Sources close to the CCP say that China wants to get the US involved in 4 different wars. With more troops being sent to #Afghanistan, will the CCP use its diplomatic ties with the #Taliban to spark another conflict?

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Beware of Chinese spies, visa applicants told

(UK) Ministers have been given intelligence that (CCP) undercover agents are spying on dissidents coming and going from two centres in Hong Kong.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beware-of-chinese-spies-visa-applicants-told-thdz6g8hq

Terrorist bond.

CCP claims it respects Afghan people’s “choices”, but the oppressed never have a choice, such as #HongKongers and #Uyghurs. We did not choose CCP.

China says they’re ready to deepen ‘friendly relations’ with Taliban

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/china-taliban-afghanistan-kabul-relationship-vdfbb1cf6

Meanwhile, as the world is fixated on the travesty of Afghanistan.

Link below 👇🏻

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231691.shtml

Perfect match!

#CCP_is_Terorist
#CCP

612 Humanitarian Relief Fund to cease operation under pressure of National Security Law.

Roger Froikin @rlefraim shared: "AS THE USA PULLED OUT OF KABUL AFGHANISTAN, LAST NIGHT PLANELOADS OF CHINESE ADVISORS AND SOME MILITARY FLEW INTO BAGRAM BASE IN AFGHANISTAN.

BAGRAM WHERE LEFT BEHIND US EQUIPMENT INCLUDING F-16'S, STILL SIT."

Four University of Hong Kong (HKU) student leaders have been arrested by national security police over “advocating terrorism” in a motion they passed that mourned a man who killed himself after stabbing a police officer on July 1.

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/08/18/hong-kong-university-student-leaders-arrested-by-national-security-police-over-mourning-of-police-attacker/

Hong Kong activist Tong Ying-kit to challenge national security case verdict and 9-year jail term

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/08/17/hong-kong-activist-tong-ying-kit-to-challenge-national-security-case-verdict-and-9-year-jail-term/

​How Google Targets Conservatives and Perpetuates CCP Propaganda

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Hong Kong exempts actor Nicole Kidman from Covid quarantine as Amazon’s ‘tone-deaf’ expat TV shows see backlash

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/08/19/hong-kong-exempts-actor-nicole-kidman-from-covid-quarantine-as-amazons-tone-deaf-expat-tv-shows-see-backlash/

(Censorship in private companies: Apple)

Apple exports PRC censorship to Hong Kong and Taiwan, report says

A new investigation into Apple's censorship of terms used to create product engravings shows that the multinational has not only broadly censored political speech in mainland China, but has partially applied its China censored keyword lists — "thoughtlessly reappropriated" from Chinese sources — to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The report, published Wednesday by The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a research lab studying digital threats to civil society, discovered Apple's 1,105 censored keywords were applied "inconsistently" across six regions in Apple's free engraving service, which allows users to put custom names or messages on products like Airpods. (Beijing delegates the burden of censorship to private companies.)

Of the 1,105 blocked keywords Citizen Lab researchers identified, most are applied in the Greater China region, Apple's third-largest market by revenue. About 95% of all the censored terms (1,045) are applied in the mainland China market, followed by Hong Kong (542) and then Taiwan (397), the report says. Apple censors almost as much political speech in mainland China as social speech — content referencing explicit sexual content, illicit goods and services and vulgarity — which is the most commonly filtered content across regions. And because political censorship from the PRC has seeped into Hong Kong and Taiwan, Apple users in these two regions also experience political censorship when they try to engrave words.

In mainland China, researchers found that about 43% of all keywords censored by Apple's engraving service refer to China's political system, the Communist Party, senior government and Party leaders and dissidents. Apple applies 174 of those 458 keywords in the Hong Kong market as well, and 29 in Taiwan. For example, the traditional Chinese phrase 新聞自由, meaning freedom of the press, is censored in China and Hong Kong. Engravings referencing Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao, 毛主席) and Xi Jinping (paramount leader, 最高領導人) are filtered in all three regions, both in simplified and complex script.

According to The Citizen Lab, Apple's public-facing documents "failed to explain how it determines the keyword lists" and the company's censorship in mainland China "may have exceeded" its legal obligations in the market. Much of Apple's censorship in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China on which Beijing has significantly tightened its grip, is not required by local laws and regulations. And in Taiwan, a self-governing island, Apple has no legal obligations to perform political censorship.

Researchers say there are two possible reasons why Apple applies its mainland China censorship in Hong Kong and Taiwan. "One is that this is, in fact, intentional behavior. In which case, it does speak to \[how much] they want to appease the Chinese government," Jeffrey Knockel, co-author of the report and a research associate at The Citizen Lab, told Protocol. "But another possibility, too, is that it's just negligence." In a letter to The Citizen Lab, which Apple shared with Protocol, Chief Privacy Officer Jane Horvath wrote that Apple tries to not allow engraving requests that "would be considered illegal according to local laws, rules, and regulations of the countries and regions" in which it is offered.

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https://www.protocol.com/china/apple-china-engraving-censorship

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(Censorship in private companies: Apple)

Selected HK-related keywords, censored by Apple in Hong Kong:

● 六合彩 (Mark Six, Hong Kong's lottery)
● FREEDOMHK
● STANDWITHHONGKONG
● 不自由毋寧死 (give me liberty or give me death)
● 专制 (autocracy)
● 专政 (dictatorship)
● 五大訴求 (Five Demands)
● 人大代表 (National People's Congress delegate)
● 人權 (Human rights)
● 佔中 (Occupy Central; initial name for the 2014 Umbrella Movement in HK)
● 光復 (Free; as in Free Hong Kong)
● 區政府 (regional government; could also form part of "Government of the [Hong Kong] Special Administrative Region")
● 南華早報 (South China Morning Post)
● 只有暴政 (Only tyranny; as in "there are no rioters, only tyranny")
● 學民思潮 (Scholarism; former student activist group created by Joshua Wong )
● 願榮光歸香港 (Glory to Hong Kong; protest anthem)
● 我要真普選 (I want genuine universal suffrage)
● 持不同政見 ("of different political opinions"; dissident; also used by the HK government to refer to the "white shirts" involved in the July 21 Yuen Long attacks)
● 時代革命 (Revolution Of Our Times)
● 民主牆 (Democracy Wall; i.e. Lennon Walls on university campuses)
● 没有暴徒 (There Are No Rioters)
● 港獨 (HK independence)
● 缺一不可 (Not One Less)
● 雨傘運動 (Umbrella Movement)
● 香港明报 (Mingpao Hong Kong; HK-based newspaper)
● 黑警 (corrupt / "black" cops)



Note: topics typically filtered inside China - i.e. Tibet, Uyghurs, dissidents, Taiwanese independence, Falun Gong, (nick)names of prominent CCP leaders (both in and out of favour), civil liberties, CCP government apparatus (e.g. NPC, Propaganda Department) etc - can also be found on the HK list. Various homonyms are also censored.

Full list of censored keywords, as tested by Citizen Lab:

https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/tree/master/apple

(u/toastedsquirrel)