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Re:Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore by nostrademons on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:04PM (#20780541)
The action in question involved 3 mainland students and one Hong Kong student.

How many people live in mainland China? 1.3B. How many people live in Hong Kong? 7.4M. How many overseas Chinese are there? 50M. How many overseas Hongkongers? About 1.5M.

You can bet that if there is any one such incident happening in the globe, the press will seize on it, because it fits the current media narrative and gets clicks. By the numbers, though, you're looking at 1 in a million.

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Re:Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore by psychrometer on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:16PM (#20780678)
It may not represent the majority of overseas Chinese or even many but it is the view I get from media.
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Re:Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore by nostrademons on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:17PM (#20780691)
That should tell you a lot about the media.
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