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Residents rush to erase digital footprints as law gives police powers over online activity…" data-url="http://www.richardhartley.com/2020/07/chinas-great-firewall-descends-on-hong-kong-internet-users/" class="twitter-share-button" >Tweet Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong hold up their mobile phones. The territory faces a dramatic decline in internet freedoms. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images At midnight on Tuesday, the Great Firewall of China, the vast apparatus that limits the country’s internet, appeared to descend on Hong Kong. Unveiling expanded police powers as part of a contentious new national security law , the Hong Kong government enabled police to censor online speech and force internet service providers to hand over user information and shut down...
