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sdried
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 Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:09 am Post subject: air quality and internet filtering |
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| What is the air quality like in Hong Kong and are the internet restrictions the same as the rest of China? |
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YujiKaido
Joined: 10 Oct 2010
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Location: ? Hong Kong ?
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I have read many other opinions on the forum here about the air quality but when I was there it didn't bother me, don't know about the long term. You can do a search and inquire more about it, plenty of posts about it. No the Internet isn't filtered like in the mainland. |
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Joshua2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| The air quality depends where you are coming from and yes, you can get facebook in Hong Kong. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| What do you reckon would happen if they started to filter the net the same as the Mainland? How would locals react? |
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sistercream
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Location: Pearl River Delta
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The less tech-savvy would have a collective melt-down initially, but I don't reckon it'd take more than a week or so for for some magic work-around gizmos to become all the rage down in Apliu St market.
Also, if the order came from Beijing, the Cantonese would do what they always have done over the centuries: kowtow beautifully and say "your will is my command, oh glorious lords and masters" in Mandarin, then turn around and continue business as usual in Canto  |
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Perilla
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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Location: Hong Kong
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| The Great Wall of Whiner wrote: |
| What do you reckon would happen if they started to filter the net the same as the Mainland? How would locals react? |
There'd be a riot - or mass demos at the very least. Freedom of information (and speech) is written into the Basic Law (HK's mini constitution) and HKers take it very seriously. Fear of the loss of freedom of speech drove over 500,000 people onto the streets in 2003 (marching against Article 23 legislation), leading to the retirement of then CE Tung Chee-wah and the hasty withdrawal of said legislation. |
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JonathanRossWC
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| sistercream wrote: |
The less tech-savvy would have a collective melt-down initially, but I don't reckon it'd take more than a week or so for for some magic work-around gizmos to become all the rage down in Apliu St market.
Also, if the order came from Beijing, the Cantonese would do what they always have done over the centuries: kowtow beautifully and say "your will is my command, oh glorious lords and masters" in Mandarin, then turn around and continue business as usual in Canto |
This. There is no way that HKers are going to put up with Mainland Chinese censorship, even if it somehow became law (which it wouldn't, as mass protests would erupt).
With HK's highly technologically-savvy population, and with social media being what it is, I'd deem it impossible for HK to ever have its internet censored like in China. The whole world, including HK, is going too fast in the other direction. |
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JonathanRossWC
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Also, coming from Philadelphia, USA, I found HK's air quality to be fine, whether walking along Victoria Harbour or deep in the urban jungle of Kowloon. I never felt any irritation or breathing issues whatsoever.
That stinky tofu, though...whew. You can detect that smell from blocks away.  |
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