A 68-year-old man is arrested for sharing allegedly ‘seditious’ posts on social media and…
…inciting people not to vote in the upcoming “patriots only” Legislative Council (LegCo) elections
The SCMP reports…
Police said on Tuesday they first detected a suspicious account in September last year that repeatedly published messages deemed to have seditious intent, including inciting hatred and contempt against the government, judiciary and law enforcement agencies.
Superintendent Chan On-ming of the National Security Department said the account encouraged others not to vote or to submit blank ballots recently.
And a 70-year-old woman is arrested for tearing down election posters…
Officers arrived at the scene and found seven posters destroyed, including one Legislative Council election promotional poster and six candidate posters.
Following initial investigation, the surnamed Chan local woman was arrested for criminal damage. She remains in custody while the case is being handled by the Deep Water Bay District Crime Squad.
…Authorities reiterated they will take zero tolerance toward any attempts to interfere with or damage Legislative Council elections, vowing to take resolute law enforcement action to ensure the current election proceeds safely and orderly.
This comes a couple of days after the arrests of two men and a woman in their 50s and 60s for allegedly sharing online posts inciting not-voting in the election. And of two men on suspicion of damaging election posters on a footbridge.
Were the shared posts the same one? How many police man-hours are used up monitoring retirees’ Facebook accounts?
Zero tolerance, peasants.
At this rate the courts will see a bigger turnout than the voting booths.
I’m quite concerned about the illegal flag issue. 90% of election flags and posters are placed without permissions, rendering them illegal and damaging the credibility of our glorious election.
One would hate to see judicial reviews challenging the results based on documented candidate cheating.
Yet the government is refusing to investigate or prosecute candidates. Almost as if the candidates are the “chosen ones” or something.
“Police said on Tuesday they first detected a suspicious account in September last year that repeatedly published messages deemed to have seditious intent, including inciting hatred and contempt against the government, judiciary and law enforcement agencies.”
All posts to this blog are being monitored. You have been warned.
‘… inciting hatred and contempt against the government’
Ironically, the government are the bestest at doing this.
Surprised it is only handled by the Deep Water Bay Disctrict Crime Squad and not the Serious Crime Squad.
Be careful, those aunties and uncles are (serious)dangerous.
“All posts to this blog are being monitored. You have been warned.”
Information Systems undergrad here.
They will need to request the ip address of the poster from Hemlock (the platform owner) or from the foreign web host used.
If by “monitoring” you mean browsing the comments, yeah I am sure they do that. But obtaining the ip will require cooperation from external forces.
I think English content is too low priority for them to bother as it is less likely to “incite” the local population. They would probably bother if you write an open letter in English to the US Congress and ask them to do something that amounts to subverting State power in HK however.
I was expecting that someone would be arrested. Even if nobody had broken the law, I would have expected the relevant authorities to engage in some relevant confabulation
… Authorities reiterated they will take zero tolerance toward any attempts to interfere with or damage Legislative Council elections, vowing to take resolute law enforcement action to ensure the current election proceeds safely and orderly.
Don’t you just hate it when Hong Kong civil servants use the word “orderly” as an adverb?
Actually, in ancient times it was occasionally so used, but it is not knowledge of this archaic and now vanishingly rare usage which leads the pen-pushers into this trap, but rather the fact that when they see the -ly ending, they automatically think that “orderly” can qualify any verb.
Tossers.
Two questions:
1 – Does this ban include Hong Kong?
2 – If not, will we be seeing Mainlander flock to HK to dine and HKrs deciding to stay in the territory on the weekends?
TOKYO/BEIJING, Nov 19 (Reuters) – China has indicated it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, two government officials in Tokyo said on Wednesday, in what appears to be the latest salvo in an escalating diplomatic dispute between Asia’s top two economies.
@Mark Bradley
“They will need to request the ip address of the poster from Hemlock (the platform owner) or from the foreign web host used.”
How quaint.
Yes, I’m sure you’re right: a government that has hacked into every major public sector and private sector computer system around the globe with impunity will need the permission of a platform owner or foreign web host before sucking up all of their data.
If only the CIA had thought of that.