Hong Kong orders pro-democracy group to scrub its online presence

[subscribe to Reclaim The Net.] Authorities in Hong Kong have forced one of the city's largest pro-democracy groups to delete its entire online presence. The deletion is so far the most high-profile incident of censorship justified by the new national security law. For decades, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China has organized an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, a government-sanctioned mass murder that Beijing would like to be forgotten. The group also criticized the government on its social media pages. However, the group was forced by the Hong Kong police…