Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block
September 3rd, 2019Via: Fortune: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Fransisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using […]
Chinese Government to Hong Kong Protestors: “The End Is Coming”
September 2nd, 2019Via: CBS: On Monday an editorial in Chinese state media warned “the end is coming for those attempting to disrupt Hong Kong.” It didn’t give detail on any specific upcoming action, but it could be referring to a potential crackdown by Chinese troops, who have massed both inside Hong Kong territory, and just across the […]
Hong Kong: Demonstrators Defy Ban on March
August 31st, 2019Via: BBC: Hong Kong police have used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse crowds as tens of thousands marched in the city, defying a ban. Demonstrators lit fires, threw petrol bombs at riot police and attacked the parliament building. An event to mark five years since Beijing ruled out fully democratic elections […]
Riot Police Clash with Protesters at Hong Kong Airport as Chinese Forces Mass at Border
August 13th, 2019Via: CBS: Riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong’s airport late Tuesday night, moving into the terminal where the demonstrators had shut down operations at one of the world’s busiest transport hubs for two straight days. Officers armed with pepper spray and swinging batons confronted the protesters who used luggage carts to barricade […]
Hong Kong: Flights Cancelled After Demonstrators Take Over Airport
August 12th, 2019Update: Clashes at Hong Kong Airport Via: Reuters: Protesters clashed with police at Hong Kong’s international airport on Tuesday evening after flights were disrupted for a second day, plunging the former British colony deeper into turmoil. The scuffles broke out in the evening between police and protesters, after an injured person was taken out of […]
False Self Employment: Google’s YouTube Business Practices Possibly Illegal in Europe
July 26th, 2019LET ME SHOW YOU ITS FEATURES! Via: JoergSprave: Related: FairTube
Parents Who Won’t Vaccinate Their Kids Turning to Home-Schooling in California
July 24th, 2019Via: Los Angeles Times: In 2016, California implemented one of the strictest immunization laws in the country, requiring that all children be up to date on their vaccinations to attend school unless a doctor says otherwise. The law, however, does not apply to children who are home-schooled, a loophole that parents seem to be increasingly […]
New Zealand Gun Owners Refusing to Turn Over Firearms to Government
July 8th, 2019Via: Reason: Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand’s government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier this year—is running into stiff resistance to new […]
Drone Over Hong Kong Protests
June 15th, 2019Via: Team BlackSheep:
HONG KONG LEADER SUSPENDS EXTRADITION BILL
June 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city’s biggest and most violent street protests in decades. The extradition bill, which would have covered Hong Kong’s seven million residents as […]
