Former Stand News editor Patrick Lam appears in court to appeal his 2024 sedition conviction. Only one of the articles found to be seditious was published while Lam was editor, and the parts deemed to incite hatred of the government were quotes from anonymous sources expressing ‘subjective feelings’.
Judge Derek Pang questioned whether a media outlet should depict events using one-sided comments that were “wrong” and “biased,” adding that the report could have included the police’s account before publication.
In response, [lawyer David] Ma argued that there was no right and wrong when it came to the interviewees’ subjective feelings, saying that the report did not seek to lay the blame on the police.
However, High Court Chief Judge Jeremy Poon said the central issue was whether media outlets could publish subjective comments that carried the “objective effect” of being seditious.
Prosecutor Derek Lau told the court that subjective feelings must not violate the law’s boundary and that freedom of expression is not absolute.
Maybe the government should set up a Subjective Feelings Hotline, so editors can check whether they are illegal before publishing them.
When it comes to hardcore tortuous language, few can beat the Standard’s editorial-writing AI bot-agent. Today’s unfathomable offering…
Crucially, commercial demand for green technologies is globally synchronized. Driven by stringent carbon disclosure mandates; corporate environmental, social and governance commitments; and mainland China’s national “dual-carbon” targets, market demand for verifiable decarbonization solutions is immense. By anchoring InnoHK around clean tech, Hong Kong positions its research laboratories not as ivory towers, but as dynamic incubators producing technologies with immediate industrial off-takers across the Greater Bay Area and global supply chains.
This translational focus directly reinforces the broader policy architecture unveiled in the 2026 Policy Address and the inaugural Five-Year Plan.
I should stop reading this stuff. I’ll end up having dreams about immediate industrial off-takers across the Greater Bay Area.
Do these idiots not understand that the suicidal Green Energy & Net Zero scams are decaying faster than a head of lettuce on Liz Truss’ credenza?