Hong Kong broadcaster TVB takes cyberbullying allegations to police, citing online ‘threats and intimidation’


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Hong Kong’s biggest free-to-air television broadcaster, TVB , has filed a police report alleging cyberbullying at the hands of netizens it says launched an online smear campaign against the station, its advertisers and artists. In a statement issued on Tuesday morning, TVB decried what it called the “harassment, molestation, pestering, threats and intimidation” employed in attempting to launch a boycott of the broadcaster and those buying ad time on it. “This cyberbullying behaviour may cause psychological or property damage to these parties and subsequently lead to social unrest,” it said without disclosing the specifics of their report. “To protect TVB...