Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves

Isn't it surprising that Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Blizzard and others don't express their deep regret and support the people of Hong Kong? If they really stood by their values they would act in the same way as they did by supporting the BLM movement. It's just another proof that they only did that to get press coverage for being "benevolent" and not because they genuinely supported the people. Disgraceful.

It was very clever of China to tighten their grip on Hong Kong while the world is distracted with the pandemic, and the US is further distracted with its own issues. Well played. I hope it backfires on them.

How is it that many Chinese students are schooled in the west, and have access to all these books and thoughts, but then they don't exist when they go back home. There must be some significant cognitive dissonance between the two situations. I don't see how they can keep a lid on this long term.

Two things are true at the same time:<p>- Hong Kong&#x27;s rule of law has disappeared;<p>- The books in question are written by pretty radical young revolutionaries.<p>Personally I am more concerned that libraries in Hong Kong seem to keep less and less books in the local version of Chinese and more books written in Simplified Chinese used in Mainland China.<p>It&#x27;s like if you are in California and suddenly half of the books in your library are in Russian instead of English or Spanish.

&quot;Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.&quot; - Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings. Heinrich Heine

Hong Kong is the freedom and civil rights issue of this generation. There should be protests and boycotts in every US city about this, instead it barely receives coverage...

It&#x27;s worth to mention that some of these books have been published quite some years already (&gt;5 years) , and their viewpoint for democracy is rather mild too. That&#x27;s why they can be on the bookshelf in the first place.

The world has already spoken: Money is more important than human rights.

This post is incredibly downmodded on the front page.

Question to the people who disapprove of this but who endorse the top down language policing as endorsed by Twitter Eng.: Why does this bother you and not that?

Does anyone have an informed idea of what effect the new law may have on the South China Morning Post? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;</a>

Is there a list of some of these books?

The only way to force US companies make a choice is to boycott them here locally.

Intra-party democracy is alright. Unabobmers manifesto or the school shooters manifesto or IRA manifestos are not exactly available in the libraries.

This is what Steam looks like in China, if you’re wondering how crazy they’ve really gotten:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn--images-win-gg.cdn.ampproject.org&#x2F;ii&#x2F;w820&#x2F;s&#x2F;cdn-images.win.gg&#x2F;news&#x2F;e7023ba77a45f7e84c5ee8a28dd63585&#x2F;1bf3ebf3aefb9744a3f52cc82326fd7b&#x2F;original.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn--images-win-gg.cdn.ampproject.org&#x2F;ii&#x2F;w820&#x2F;s&#x2F;cdn-...</a>

Important to note that the US Agency for Global Media was funding and supporting the Hong Kong protests [1]. China could never get away with doing the same thing in the US.<p>The fact is that media bubbles are a powerful tool. There is a reason the US &#x2F; CIA spend so much time&#x2F;money on projects like Radio Free Asia. If you are on the same side as the CIA and US imperialism, you might want to think about why that is and what kind of harm you are causing with your jingoistic posts. The US media is carefully controlled and an opinion-making bubble of its own. Yes, many Chinese people support their government and it&#x27;s not because they are duped, actually.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;comment&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;article&#x2F;3091438&#x2F;us-has-been-exposed-funding-last-years-hong-kong-protests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;comment&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;article&#x2F;3091438&#x2F;us-has-...</a>