Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymous threats

Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by Willson50 on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:19AM (#20715393)

Every Chinese celebrity have written the exact same post on their social media [1-3]. I don’t know if their views are genuine but it definitely feels like a coordinated social media campaign by the government.

These posts are made inorganically as most of these celebrities have never shared their political opinions before. All of the sudden they’re posting the same things on the same day. It’s extremely strange.

[1] https://twitter.com/layzhang/status/1161521747243520008?s=21 [2] https://pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/201908... [3] https://m.imgur.com/6tIRGSJ

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by sak5sk on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:58AM (#20715798)

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22I%20love%20China%F0%9F%87%A8...

Here you go. Not suspicious at all!

Edit: another gem full of bot accounts: https://twitter.com/search?q=%20what%20a%20shame%20for%20Hon...

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by a1231312 on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:45AM (#20715639)

I wouldn't read too much about it. Especially in China where celebrities get into big trouble for voicing the wrong opinion. They probably posted it because their publishers and managers told them to do so to win some favors with the government.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by asfarley on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:35PM (#20721049)

New account, no other posts, anonymous name, nothing to see here move along

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by creaghpatr on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:25AM (#20716108)

Happens in America too, celebs today are one bad take away from being ‘canceled’

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by siidooloo on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:06PM (#20716560)

They arn’t being cancelled by the government. And they arn’t speaking out for fear of being disappeared by the government.

I don’t like the US government, but there is no equivalency with China.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by koonsolo on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:30PM (#20718816)

Do you seriously think that celebrities are scared to say bad things about their government/president? And if they do, that there will be repercussions?

You can't be serious right?

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by simplify on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:19PM (#20719312)

Based on personal experience, there are in fact some Chinese that are surprised to learn Americans can criticize the president with no repercussions.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by powerapple on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:49PM (#20732068)

base on personal experience, Chinese can be surprised to learn Americans would criticized the president, but won't be surprised to learn Americans can criticize the president with no repercussions. Otherwise, Hollywood is doing a very bad job.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by titicaca123 on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:01PM (#20721473)

No it’s not strange if you know what Really happened there. On Tuesday night at the HK airport, protesters surrounded two Chinese citizens from main land, searched their belongings, tied them up and beat them badly. It took a almost four hours for the paramedics to get the first guy out From the airport because the protesters tried to block them. The second guy is a journalist. He was calm and fearless when they tied him up. He said to the mob: I support Hongkong police , now you can beat me. Then the beating started. On his way out on a stretcher, he said I love Hongkong. The video has gone viral in Chinese Weibo, people are shocked and angry. And they are so moved by his courage. His words has been shared by countless people. A lot of celebrities has shared on their social media as well. The government does not ask them to do this.

The western media, however, only reported that the police clashed with protesters. So most people only knows a little about what happened that night.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022838...

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by amaccuish on Sunday August 18, 2019 @04:44PM (#20732695)

I can't believe this was downvoted. It's literally what happened.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by dionian on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:46AM (#20715657)

also why are they using twitter its banned in china for censorship reasons

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by gruez on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:55AM (#20715750)

Presumably because the CCP cares about its foreign image. Tiananmen Square 2.0 might result in sanctions from other countries, but if they can paint it as "cracking down on troublemakers", they might be able to justify it.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by Aeolun on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:11PM (#20716618)

A coordinated bot campaign is a bit hard to miss though. Now they just look pathetic.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by craftyguy on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:20PM (#20719321)

It worked for the last US presidential election.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by ebog on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:21PM (#20716732)

It works

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by powerapple on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:46PM (#20732043)

they are genuine. most of my friends hold same view.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by weiming on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:36AM (#20715553)

Seems not too different from our (US) celebrities posting the same political messages in unison. Like most of the Avengers cast and others. I've always wondered how scripted this is.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by traderjane on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:42AM (#20715602)

Reminds me of the recent matter of monopoly and coordinated messaging with Sinclair Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtkvG1JnPk

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by Nadya on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:19PM (#20716709)

Support the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by weiming on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:45AM (#20715629)

The Sinclair video seemed creepy at first, but then again, these are literally paid TV announcers whose job consists of reading a script. One would expect the content to be scripted, and that's why I prefer indie people on YouTube over TV talking heads.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by auslander on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:58AM (#20715795)

Try to find about EU's INSTEX, financial vehicle to bypass US sanctions, in mainstream US media.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by admk on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:35AM (#20715547)

Because the news of the journalist got beaten up by the protesters went viral. There were more than 4 billion views on the related searches [1].

I will refrain from commenting on politics (don't have the time to contribute) but must say that I found both sides are incredibly biased against each other.

[1]: https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6%88%91%E4%B9%9F%E6%94%AF%E...

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by gwathk on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:00AM (#20715826)

The "journalist" has no official record of him[1]. He also held a travel visa to Hong Kong and failed to show press pass on the scene[2].

It is wrong to do this to anyone and the protestor organized an apology session in HK airport the next day.[3]

[1]: (if you read chinese) http://cablenews.i-cable.com/ci/videopage/news/554875/%E5%8D... [2]: https://www.facebook.com/HKJA.official/posts/101572528984603... [3]: https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/order-returns-hong...

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by admk on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:22AM (#20716072)

Re. [1,2] see [4], but I wouldn't expect it to convince you. Re. [3] I fail to see how an apology is an acceptable excuse for the protesters' behaviour, regardless of their cause.

[4]: https://weibo.com/1989660417/I2cCLyIGC?refer_flag=1001030103...

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by Aeolun on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:09PM (#20716597)

> I fail to see how an apology is an acceptable excuse for the protesters' behaviour, regardless of their cause.

Presumably you think the same thing about the behaviour of the police. But they are lacking even an apology.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by yorwba on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:43AM (#20716292)

The protesters apologizing are presumably not the same whose behavior they're apologizing for. It just shows that the protest movement is not homogeneous and does not as a whole support indiscriminate violence.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by gruez on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:53AM (#20715729)

>Because the news of the journalist got beaten up by the protesters went viral

Given there's a history of the government using provocateurs. I'd take that with a grain of salt.

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by baybal2 on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:07PM (#20716570)

> [1]

In a strange time we live in, a red guard journalist gets a struggle session from pro-democracy activists in China's most freewheeling city

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by siidooloo on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:33AM (#20716182)

You don’t have time to comment, but you do have time to make this comment?

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Re:Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymo... by wenning on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:38AM (#20715567)

It's not strange, because we saw the protestors having done so many bad things and these are not reported out of china.

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