> Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong<p>Impressive coordination of public & private bureaucracies
Following the Be water thinking, ppl start to have no specific items or clothes to represent themselves now. So the essential tool would be the determination to live in this city with courage, hope, dignity and helping each other in a crisis created by no one but the government.<p>This government has lost all its credibility within a hundred day, which is impressive in a way I guess? I don’t think HK will be totally recovered when CCP continues to intervene. The damage has be made, and the scar will always be there.
Remember 2014, Kyiv, Maidan. We actively used a push-to-talk mobile app Zello. Cheap used mobile phone, burner sim-card without id, and you're on the way. Also many people used whatsapp, Facebook was very liberal to UA protesters.<p>"Winter on fire", Netflix, highly recommend.<p>Of course times changing, and heard now Zello is affiliated with Russian government.
Makes me think of this: <a href="https://unbreakableumbrella.com/product/unbreakable-walking-stick-umbrella-model-u-115/" rel="nofollow">https://unbreakableumbrella.com/product/unbreakable-walking-...</a><p>I own one and it’s a great umbrella that I have only ever used for conventional purposes. :)<p>Now I just need to learn this Kunfgu set ...<p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWtZmKrENDE" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWtZmKrENDE</a>
Part of the inspiration for us building Umbrella: a free, open source app with advice on how activists can deal with protests, arrests, surveillance and communication. It's available in multiple languages, including Chinese. (More information at <a href="https://www.secfirst.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.secfirst.org</a>)<p>iOS:
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id14537153...</a><p>Android:
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.umbrella" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...</a>
Terrible GDPR page - not clear if you’re answering “yes” or “no”<p>Why do websites insist on the most terrible custom designs? What’s wrong with “input type=checkbox”?
> “If you compare the umbrella with the weapon the others are using to attack us, the umbrella is nothing for that. Actually, umbrellas are really easily broken and we only use it to protect ourselves.”<p>Are umbrellas in China just really light and flimsy? I've had a lot of umbrellas heavy and sturdy enough to do some serious damage if I were so inclined.
All those people who protest ... They protest against what ? In France, we have the "Gilets Jaunes", who also protest, there is also the young people who protest against climate change. They protest, and they go nowhere ...