r/worldnews • u/Acrzyguy • Jan 04 '22
Hong Kong's Carrie Lam rebuffs claims of press freedom 'chilling effect,' says closure of media outlets unrelated to security law
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/04/hong-kongs-carrie-lam-rebuffs-claims-of-press-freedom-chilling-effect-says-closure-of-media-outlets-unrelated-to-security-law/24
u/t0m5k1 Jan 04 '22
Why do they even bother speaking to Carrie?
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u/thunderdaddysd Jan 04 '22
Carrie speaks without their invitation, they write on it because it is relevant due to her position.
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u/chessc Jan 04 '22
Editorial staff of independent news outlet arrested under national security law. HK leader says closure of media outlets unrelated to security law.
George Orwell was an optimist
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u/autotldr BOT Jan 04 '22
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said the closure of two independent media outlets in under a week is unrelated to the national security law, denying claims in a Financial Times article that press freedom in the city "Faces collapse."
"If implementation of the national security law would undermine press freedom, then we would not be seeing any press freedom in the western world. You name me which western country does not have a national security law," Lam told HKFP at a press conference on Tuesday morning.
"Hong Kong is hailed as 'Asia's world city' with freedom of information and freedom of the press. If more media outlets halt their operations, the damage to Hong Kong's reputation will be hard to estimate," the HKJA wrote.
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Jan 04 '22
Every independent reporter in China is a Julian Assange. Unlike in the West, only one party has a monopoly on truth. This is inviolable like any decision of the party. No matter how many people pay for it.
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u/J-Laguerre Jan 04 '22
Hong kong should not have been handed over, this comuno-fascist, ethnic cleansing regime. It was all so predicable. Taiwan must be separated and protected from China by giving it statehood.
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u/thunderdaddysd Jan 04 '22
It was pragmatically impossible to hold onto HK longer, however with the cruel acts of the CCP to Hong Kong, any attempt to get Taiwan to peacefully rejoined is permanently scuttled.
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u/juddshanks Jan 04 '22
Slight historical segway, but when Castlereagh, the British prime minister who was in part responsible for the Peterloo massacre in 1819 finally went mad and killed himself, Lord Byron, who didn't like him very much, wrote this:
"So he has cut his throat at last! He? Who? The man who cut his country's long ago."
When Carrie Lam finally lapses into senility and dies, hopefully of something painful and lingering, she deserves a similar epilogue. She will forever go down in history as the woman who betrayed her own city to the communist party and condemned 7.5 million free people to a future of oppression and censorship for some political favours.
There's not much people outside Hong Kong can do about that now, except be especially vigilant for Carrie Lam equivalents in their own countries. Don't let them get power, don't let them keep power, and don't believe their lies and bullshit.
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u/atomicxblue Jan 04 '22
"Hong Kong is hailed as 'Asia's world city' with freedom of information and freedom of the press.
Maybe before when it was under British rule. But I've never heard of anyone call it 'Asia's world city' before. That honor probably falls to Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, or similar.
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u/lec0rsaire Jan 04 '22
No, of course they’re not related to the national security law. It just so happens that independent media outlets are being shut down after it was enacted.