#national-security-law

#national-security-law

Turning her camera to the streets and taking us into artists' studios, the film-maker captures the vibrant creative scene of the city. The turmoil of the protests against the 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill, along with the draconian laws that followed, hangs heavy over every frame. In the midst of political turbulence, art emerges as a powerful, transformative tool of collective resistance.

We got to talking about National Security law, hacktivism, and terrorism. I had been Wired's correspondent on Anonymous, and probably understood The hacktivist collective better than anyone. They had recently tore through the net, hacking companies and governments like they were wet paper towels. I was explaining to my fellow nerds that Anonymous was very similar to Al-Qaeda. Though in form only, not in content.

Images of agents carrying out boxes under a federal warrant played across news feeds-as spectacle and warning in equal measure. For me, those moments replayed a darkness I knew intimately: the morning of November 28, 2007, when FBI agents stormed my own home in Maryland and office at Fort McNair in DC on the National Defense University campus, searching and seizing everything from books to family photos.

The Chinese government has increased its appalling use of collective punishment against family members of peaceful activists from Hong Kong.

Amnesty’s secretary-general stated that the new Hong Kong section demonstrates ‘the resilience of our movement, our determination never to be silenced’ amid threats.