Access Now: #KeepItOn Coalition Warns Internet Shutdowns Will Further Hurt Hong Kong
September 03, 2019
September 03, 2019
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 -- Access Now issued the following news release:
As part of a larger crackdown on the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam has suggested that her administration would consider using legacy emergency legal powers to allow the Government of Hong Kong to censor, disrupt, and block social media and other communication platforms, and to shut down the internet. More recently, there are reports of renewed distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks a . . .
As part of a larger crackdown on the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam has suggested that her administration would consider using legacy emergency legal powers to allow the Government of Hong Kong to censor, disrupt, and block social media and other communication platforms, and to shut down the internet. More recently, there are reports of renewed distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks a . . .