Margrethe Vestager is a EU commissioner and member of the Danish Social Liberals, described as “Radical Left”.
She was here in Hong Kong recently and says the following, as reported here.
What the protesters were doing was to put out these messages as if they came from the police. And bingo! how terrible the police are! “No freedom to assemble or express yourself” ! And you’ve got one more western useful idiot on your side.
It was done by way of SMiShing, a version of phishing using SMS. Sending out messages that look like they’re from someone else, in this case the police.
In other words, Ms Vestager was putting out Fake News. She may not have done it deliberately, but that doesn’t excuse it.
Another possibility is that Ms Vestager heard of the many families that were begging their children to return home.
She’s not alone in getting things dramatically wrong. When Ted Cruz came here, in the middle of riots that were daily thrashing our streets and shops, and which I saw with my own eyes, he said that he had seen “no violence” at all from the protesters. Ok, Ted.
Related:
(1) Comparitech on the 100 most surveilled cities
(2) More Fake News: of Claudia Mo, who I wrote about the other day, Alex Lo says:
She was here in Hong Kong recently and says the following, as reported here.
“I find it truly really scary what I saw in Hong Kong,” said the EU Commission’s executive vice-president on digital policy, Margrethe Vestager, who will spearhead the policy.During a wave of anti-Beijing protests, she said, “People could get a message on the phone: ‘We know you’re there, maybe you should go home’. Not really supportive of the freedom to assemble, or to express yourself.” [my emphasis]Here’s the thing. I was around in the same demos at the time and know about these texts. I was in touch with an IT expert, also involved in the protests, who told me these were a False Flag operation and that they had proof of it: knowing the folks who had put them out.
What the protesters were doing was to put out these messages as if they came from the police. And bingo! how terrible the police are! “No freedom to assemble or express yourself” ! And you’ve got one more western useful idiot on your side.
It was done by way of SMiShing, a version of phishing using SMS. Sending out messages that look like they’re from someone else, in this case the police.
In other words, Ms Vestager was putting out Fake News. She may not have done it deliberately, but that doesn’t excuse it.
Another possibility is that Ms Vestager heard of the many families that were begging their children to return home.
She’s not alone in getting things dramatically wrong. When Ted Cruz came here, in the middle of riots that were daily thrashing our streets and shops, and which I saw with my own eyes, he said that he had seen “no violence” at all from the protesters. Ok, Ted.
Related:
(1) Comparitech on the 100 most surveilled cities
(2) More Fake News: of Claudia Mo, who I wrote about the other day, Alex Lo says:
Last month, fellow opposition lawmaker Claudia Mo Man-ching told Britain’s Sky News that police sent in undercover officers to vandalise shops during the New Year’s Day protests. Again, Mo cited news reports as support. If true, this would be the biggest scandal involving local police. Why aren’t Mo and her colleagues investigating? Mo was a journalist, by the way.The reason they aren’t is that it didn’t happen. And it didn’t matter to Mo et al that it didn’t happen. Enough for the Fake News to be out there and propagate on social media, and it becomes yet another reason to hate the police.
