The Hong Kong government said on Tuesday that it asked a court to ban a protest song in a bid to prevent people from inciting secession or insulting China's national anthem.
"Recently, the song has also been mistakenly presented as the 'national anthem of Hong Kong' repeatedly," the government said in a statement. "This has not only insulted the national anthem but also caused serious damage to the country and the HKSAR."
It would also ban 32 videos of "Glory to Hong Kong" on YouTube, including the English, Dutch and Japanese versions of the song. Google, which operates YouTube, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Hong Kong does not have its own anthem. The protest anthem was played mistakenly instead of the Chinese national anthem "March of the Volunteers", after the Hong Kong ice hockey team beat Iran at an international competition.
"Glory to Hong Kong" was written in 2019, just as Hong Kong's protests erupted against a now-withdrawn extradition bill that allowed for suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial, and was considered by many demonstrators in the former British colony to be their national anthem.
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