Hong Kong is the Arab Spring with better technology—on both sides.
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The new battle in Hong Kong isn’t on the streets: it’s in the apps
Alice had been marching for hours by the time she got home on the evening of July 21. It was a Sunday, and the sweltering heat of a Hong Kong summer had left her exhausted and jittery. Still, she was transfixed by her phone, which had been buzzing the entire subway ride.
It was pinging with news alerts about a group of protesters who had split from the peaceful procession and were facing off against riot police. On arriving at her apartment, she opened her laptop and fired up a website that displayed a dizzying nine separate live shots from different news outlets. One stream in particular caught her eye, showing chaos at a nearby railway station. She could see men armed with clubs who were terrorizing train passengers, bursting into subway cars and bludgeoning bystanders who were kneeling on the floor begging for mercy.
The live stream was gripping and horrifying: Alice felt as if she were in the middle of the station. She flinched and screamed when an attacker in a pink shirt hit a reporter who was filming from her cell phone. Despite being beaten to the floor by the blows, the journalist kept on filming and narrating the scene as she got back on her feet. When the police arrived, Alice saw passengers screaming at them for turning up only when the violence was over. The crowd’s anger swelled, and the officers eventually retreated.
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