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Hong Kong Security Law Redraws Lines, Making Some Ideas Dangerous – The New York Times

HONG KONG A barge draped with enormous red banners celebrating China s new security law was sailing across Hong Kong s famed Victoria Harbor only hours after the legislation passed. The police now hoist a purple sign warning protesters that their chants could be criminal. Along major roads throughout the city, neon-colored flags hailing a new era of stability and prosperity stand erect as soldiers.

In recent days, as China took a victory lap over the law it imposed on the city Tuesday, the defiant masses who once filled Hong Kong s streets in protest have largely gone quiet. Sticky notes that had plastered the walls of pro-democracy businesses vanished, taken down by owners suddenly fearful of the words scribbled on them. Parents whispered about whether to stop their children from singing a popular protest song, while activists devised coded ways to express now-dangerous ideas.

via www.nytimes.com

I wonder how much BLM and Antifa would like it in HK.