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Hong Kong Protesters Combat the Surveillance State
ReasonTV ^ | Oct. 4, 2019 | unknown (Reason TV)

Posted on 10/10/2019 10:07:30 PM PDT by zipper

Encryption, other privacy measures, and decentralization have made the protest movement possible...... A major priority of the protest movement that has consumed Hong Kong for the past three and a half months has been to thwart the surveillance apparatus that's virtually everywhere. Demonstrators have felled camera poles with chainsaws, spray-painted security camera lenses, used green lasers to destroy sensors, and shielded themselves with umbrellas while marching through the streets.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicoms; china; hongkong; hongkongprotests; reasontv; tianinmen
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To: zipper

This one is much more recent and interesting (Oct. 7).

China military issues unprecedented warning to Hong Kong protesters
South China Morning Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJprYqcsjI0

“Chinese soldiers stationed in Hong Kong have issued an unprecedented warning to several hundred protesters who reportedly approached their garrison in Kowloon on October 6, 2019.

Tension was also high earlier in the day, when a taxi rammed into a crowd of protesters in Sham Shui Po.

The unrest on Sunday was the third straight day of defiance of a new ban on the wearing of face masks during public gatherings.”

[And some older videos.]

Hong Kong experiences its most intense clashes since protests started
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aAj1pm0aDw

Hong Kong MPs defy China during swearing-in ceremony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg28yQucgGU


21 posted on 10/11/2019 12:11:02 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: zipper

Hong Kong protest tactics: occupy, disrupt, disperse, repeat
[Tactics!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihKSHT7gIBY

“Donald Trump don’t trust China, China is asshole.”
[Words of a protester.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0

Hong Kong on Brink of Totalitarianism | China Uncensored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTJiWRUduo


22 posted on 10/11/2019 12:36:05 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: dp0622

They talk with their vote? Well the left will eventually fix that too


23 posted on 10/11/2019 1:07:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: zipper

Real Reason Why China Wants To Expand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGFtFFrsQ7c

USA & India VS China & Russia - Who Would Win? (Army / Military Comparison)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtu2WXehZe4


24 posted on 10/11/2019 2:28:16 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: zipper

“Demonstrators have felled camera poles with chainsaws, spray-painted security camera lenses, used green lasers to destroy sensors, and shielded themselves with umbrellas...”

We might learn a few things from the surveillance-avoiding Chinese.


25 posted on 10/11/2019 6:12:58 AM PDT by moovova (You can't buy it back if you didn't sell it to me.)
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To: dp0622

“Nah then the country would be full of crazy Italians :)”

But then the food would be wonderful.


26 posted on 10/11/2019 6:14:57 AM PDT by moovova (You can't buy it back if you didn't sell it to me.)
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To: moovova

lol


27 posted on 10/11/2019 7:57:19 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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