China has quickly moved to censor Hong Kong's internet and access users' data using a feared new national security law.
China has quickly moved to censor Hong Kong's internet and access users' data using a feared new national security law, but US tech giants offered some resistance citing rights concerns.
"The Chinese Communist Party's destruction of free Hong Kong continues," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday. China has made no secret of its desire to use the law to crush the democracy movement, and to intimidate those who want to resist. Police were granted powers to control and remove online information if there were"reasonable grounds" to suspect the data breaches the national security law.
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