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Foreigners can think of this as "real-life SOPA", where not your speech, nor your online activities, but your moral values are being manipulated by what is being thought by others as "your own country".


> what is being thought by others as "your own country".

Are you Hongkongese? I live in HK now (American) and am curious to hear your take on this and China's exertion of authority over HK in general.


https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hong_Kong_Bas...

The socialist system and policies shall not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the previous capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years.

This is clearly not happening. Socialistic ideology has crept up all around, and we have lost hope in restoring this city we once called home.


Even in Taiwan, which is still a de-facto country and not even a SAR, the media influence of the PRC is frightening. Just a few days ago, there were protests against a (pro-PRC) media monopoly:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2012/09/02/20...

...but I doubt it'll help. At least I don't have to feel bad for the Taiwanese majority because they get what they've voted for.


Biased television and newspaper media.

government passing draconian copyright laws.

moral national education.

functional constituencies.

corrupt heads of state. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f5055f20-628b-11e1-872e-00144... (accepting free private jet flights but only paying economy fares for them.)

the candidate with most votes from the people have the least from representatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Chief_Executive_elect...

chinese influence on majority shareholders of radio stations; this one in particular is closing next month or so: http://www.dbc.hk, one of the major shareholders was even quoted saying "CCP wants to shut you down" (in chinese). http://www.scmp.com/article/1014470/politics-play-dbc-radios... (scmp is one of the most pro-beijing newspapers in hk, but I couldn't find any other article in english; yes I was surprised to find this there, no the quote isn't in the article.)

more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Beijing_camp (the most funded political party is the DAB, which is pro-beijing.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_legislative_election,...

In Hong Kong, even though pro-democracy party has more votes than pro-beijing parties, they have less seats.

Oh and just as a coincidence, today is election day in Hong Kong, tell your friends to vote!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19533116




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