the revolution the press is ignoring

Michael Yon, an independent reporter who made his name reporting on the Middle East wars, is in Hong Kong and is reporting the growing unrest (dare I say revolution) there:

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Instapundit links to an article about Apple helping the Chinese gov't.

Controversy as Apple removes Hong Kong protest app, saying it is ‘illegal.’ A friend on Facebook comments: “Remember back when Apple and Tim Cook made a big show of refusing to help the FBI unlock a terrorist’s iPhone? Remember what a friend of liberty it was then? Remember how willing it was to defy the state? Remember Apple, the principled defender of rights? Well.”

however the ManilaBulletin(reuters) reports that the messenger app Telegram is not cooperating:

Telegram, a popular encrypted messaging app, will allow users to cloak their telephone numbers to safeguard Hong Kong protesters against monitoring by authorities, according to a person with direct knowledge of the effort.

in summary, the police are able to check the posts and find the phone numbers, and then the names of those posting videos or talking to each other, and then can find and arrest them.

telegram is a Russian app that is threatening the other social media platforms and claims it is more secure than they are.
Some countries are tying to shut it down claiming it supports "Terrorism and pornography". LOL.

On October 1, China had a big party to celebrate 90 years of being liberated under communism. (and Trumpie boy sent them congratulations, duh).

AustinBay notes that the HongKong protests are sort of messing up the message, although one should note that Michael Yon in the podcast above notes the protester shot was sort of threatening the police in a minor way (but the shooting was an over reaction, similar to the police shootings protested in the USA by the BLM movement).

Hong Kong, to the distress of Xi, is the only place on the mainland where the Chinese can freely criticize the dictatorship's brutality and viciousness. The communist regime knows what happens in Hong Kong doesn't stay in Hong Kong, thanks to the internet, radio and commerce. As for Hong Kong on Oct. 1, it was a bloody day. For the first time, Hong Kong police fired live ammunition at demonstrators and wounded a young student in the chest...

The Hong Kong protests definitely marred Xi's summer of personality cult cultivation...

Xi has decided to go full Emperor Mao -- which is a future of feudal aristocrats and brutal secret police. Hong Kong says no way. The rest of the world should as well....

 Last month StrategyPage had a podcast giving the background on why Hong Kong is important. MP3LINK

Right now, what is going on in Hong Kong seems to be another part of the wave of populism, as seen in the elections of Duterte, Bolsonero, Trump, and Brexit/Johnson.

Mike Duncan has a "revolutions" podcast, and one can almost see parallels between the (mainly unsuccessful) populist movements of the 1848 revolts and what is going on today. i.e. with many uprisings that spontaneously happened with little connection to each other.

But that one was inspired by the famines of the 1840s: so why is there an outbreak in mainly peaceful uprisings against the shiny New World order establishment now?

Don't ask me. I'm a doctor, not a political pundit.

But is is ironic that the Hong Kong protests could have huge geopolitical implications, including for the Philippines, yet they are pretty well ignored in the MSM here in the Philippines, even though we have over 100 thousand OFW there.

But at least the BBC is covering the protests.

and they say the next step is to impose emergency powers, and ban face masks..

Last used in 1967 to help stop violent riots in the territory's trading hub, the laws could also give the government greater authority to make arrests, censor publications and search premises.

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Guy Fawkes, call you office: the rebellion is back