The 5 that stand out for me:
1) the HK gov pressuring Google to censor a song (I used to work for Google on freedom of expression issues).
I helped out with a legal analysis of this case, together with @ericyhlai.bsky.social and @tom-kellogg.bsky.social. 👇
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/law-asia/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2024/12/241204_GTHK-Injunction-Analysis_FINAL.pdf
1) the HK gov pressuring Google to censor a song (I used to work for Google on freedom of expression issues).
I helped out with a legal analysis of this case, together with @ericyhlai.bsky.social and @tom-kellogg.bsky.social. 👇
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/law-asia/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2024/12/241204_GTHK-Injunction-Analysis_FINAL.pdf
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Yes, a t-shirt. It said "liberate Hong Kong".
I'm pretty sure I still have a few of those stickers lying around somewhere ...
I talked about this news on Dutch public radio
https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/buitenland/51b9176f-0a86-4ac4-b93b-838ac6f86fd1/internationale-kritiek-op-de-veroordeling-van-twee-journalisten-uit-hongkong
This in a year where the LA Times and the Washington Post killed editorials endorsing Biden.
Oh newspapers ...
The sentencing of the 45 pro-democracy figures.
It's hard to explain why this one hit me the hardest.
To arrest basically the entire opposition, and then get them convicted, in front of the world's eyes, and basically get away with it? Maybe that's why.