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Re:Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs by thaumasiotes on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:30AM (#27411224)
The change in law is not especially great. The change in exercise of power is bigger.

Crackdown on speech and democracy movements? If in one year, there are no protest movements and no crackdowns, and in a later year there are several protests and several crackdowns, has the level of cracking-down-on-protests gone up?

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Re:Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs by dillondoyle on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:15PM (#27414590)
Both yes and I feel like you are purposefully ignoring recent events.

In recent history, there were record breaking, HUGE protests of thousands and thousands HKers with umbrellas, at first marching mostly unhindered and somewhat successful in at least postponing the illusion of democratic law.

Now, lighting a candle gets an activist arrested.

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