China’s Great Firewall no barrier to ugly online battles over Hong Kong protests


There is a clear dichotomy between how the Hong Kong protest movement has been portrayed on the Internet within and beyond the mainland. — SCMP

Hong Kong’s summer of protests looks very different from inside and outside the Great Firewall that encircles the Internet in mainland China.

On Monday morning, the top trending topic on Weibo, China’s highly regulated version of Twitter, featured a Shanghai tourist who was “harassed and beaten” during a massive pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong on Sunday evening. It racked up 520 million views.

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