Hong Kong Watch says its website suddenly can't be seen in Hong Kong The website of UK-registered charity Hong Kong Watch – an organisation dedicated to researching and monitoring threats to the territory's promised freedom and autonomy – has suddenly become impossible to reach from Hong Kong. The charity on Monday posted news of the blockage, and alleged DNS tampering. A friend of The …
Ah, so they have the USA approach to law. Good for them.
In any case, I note that "The exodus from Hong Kong to Singapore is well underway ", which is perfectly normal.
Yes, Hong Kong will become just another Chinese city. Yes, the Great Internet Firewall will be thoroughly applied. Yes, anyone with any sense of freedom and a smidgen of intelligence should get the hell out of there while they can.
There might still be money to make in Hong Kong, but it will be under Beijing's full control. Your choice.
My understanding is that Singapore is not very much better in terms of rights etc.
Singapore sends people to prison for preaching pacifism, so I don't know what else they do. It doesn't seem to be "free speech" by Western standards.
Leaving Hong Kong for Singapore seems to me to be "right idea but wrong destination"
Like CCP China, Singapore does indeed suppress and punish a lot of things Westerners hold dear.
The difference is that Singapore is a nation with rule of law, and a very low level of corruption. That is, if you're convicted in Singapore, it's likely because you've broken a law of the land, that has been legislated, known and communicated publicly beforehand.
On the other hand, CCP-run mainland China is well known for the prevalence of bribery, corruption, and arbitrary political detention - particularly of business leaders and foreign citizens. So, as the CCP gains more control over Hong Kong, the city's perception - and reality - of being a society with rule of law must be brought into ever greater question.
> I'm not sure what Hamsters have to do with it though.
Hamsters were identified as a likely Covid disease vector so the response to this news was "kill them all".
(You don't usually see this sort of thing with cuddly pets, its usually reserved for poultry and cattle.)
Can we clarify what is happening, and specifically, what "CMHK (at 172.20.10.1:53)" is? Because that's an RFC1918 private address, not a public one.
I always like to see actual examples of what has been tested and what were the results, if only to understand what being done technically (and how to avoid it if needed).
ElReg being a technical website, it wouldn't hurt to investigate the technical side of things more than the Daily Mail does.
Having a DNS server in the private IP space probably means you can reach it only from that ISP's network.
I checked the other IP address and it does not respond to queries from the UK. Which is hardly surprising for an ISP DNS server that is meant for their own subscribers only.
Our Elites made China strong by exporting many of our industrial jobs there, mostly because of greed. Now China has a firm hand on the balls of many western countries, who wouldn't dare to make a move against the Red Tyrant because they are dependent of it. China can crush HK, nobody will move.
These Elites were and will never be accountable for this. They became richer by making western workers poorer and exploiting the misery of Chinese peasants transformed into industrial slaves. That's sad for you HK, but you'll be totally fucked in the end, it's just a matter of time.
That's sad for you HK, but you'll be totally fucked in the end, it's just a matter of time.
Its not just HK that will be f**ked. Citizens of any democracy that vote in a right wing government suffer exactly the same fate. Modern elections are predicated on voting out the "intellectual elite" but this is just a scam by the wealthy elite to grab themselves an even bigger share of the nations GDP. We politely call it chumocracy but in reality it is corruption, pure and simple.
It is no accident that that public bodies such as libraries and museums, are closing everywhere and the NHS can no longer cope with their waiting lists. Government is saying they give ever more money to the NHS, but behind the scenes they force the NHS to hand it over to private health care companies. During the pandemic the NHS was forced to hand over £0.7Bn just in case private beds were needed and if they had been, they would have had to pay again.
AC» Citizens of any democracy that vote in a right wing government suffer exactly the same fate.
Are saying the citizens of any democracy that vote in a non-right wing government will be spared?
How do you define right-wing or left-wing?
Does Sweden have a right-wing government? Compared to whom exactly?
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