Wednesday, 29 December 2021

“Hong Kong’s Stand News shuts down after national security police arrest 7, freeze HK$61 million in assets” | SCMP

“Stand News”?  Who cares? Or is this good news? No it is not. Unless you’re a Beijing apparatchik, or CCP fellow traveller.  

(H/t: First they came)

First they came for the Apple Daily 

and I mocked the Daily, a trashy tabloid

Then they came for Stand News and I did not speak out, 

coz, like, who’s heard of them?

Then they came for …? 

ADDED (30/12): At least the lost covers the story front page in today’s print edition. Stand News’ “crime” was covering the 2019 demos and riots rather too sympathetically.