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Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by BBC-vs-neolibs on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:23AM (#27686868)
As I remember it, the protests were incredibly downplayed or ignored in the media, in ways I think would be impossible now.

Cellphone footage of the protests would emerge now. I don't know if this would have changed anything, but I often wonder.

I felt alone and only later learned there had been large protests basically everywhere.

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Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by GordonS on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:33PM (#27691270)
I remember it differently. I was there in London to protest, but when I returned home and saw the sweeping overhead shots of the crowds on the BBC news, I was awestruck by just how many people there were. You wouldn't capture the scale of it with cellphone footage.
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