【出書收版稅都要審查？滙豐致電查詢海外款源】
路透社早前透露，多家跨國銀行正審查其香港客戶是否與社會運動有關連，以避免成為《港區國安法》下的打擊目標。知情人士稱，瑞信、滙控、瑞士寶盛集團和瑞銀等銀行計劃審查與政治和政府有關聯的客戶，若客戶被認定為政治人物，便會較難或完全無法獲得銀行服務。
情況巧合得不能再巧合。滙豐銀行上周以關注客戶資產管理為由，突然致電向我查詢一筆五位數字滙款的來歷。我向滙豐解釋，該筆款項是企鵝出版社（Penguin Publisher）因應我出版《Unfree Speech》（http://hyperurl.co/unfreespeech）而給我的版稅，並當我主動表明願向銀行提供書面證明，來電查詢者卻表示「不需要」。
說實話，持有該戶口十年有多，首次接獲這類查詢電話，還是連那麼小的金額也要查詢，已經感覺到很奇怪。很大程度上，我想是國安法下衍生的白色恐怖。同時也質疑，該電話不是隨機抽查，必然有政治動機存在。
通話期間，我曾追問對方，自己是否因政治聯繫受審查，惟職員未直接回應，現時非常憂慮日後可能無法申請銀行戶口，現已諮詢律師意見，絕不能排除戶口被無故凍結的可能。公開此事，只希望大家慎重應對，對於任何威權打壓伎倆，也不能掉以輕心。
[Financial censorship amid unfree speech]
1. More than just crackdowns on dissidents, national security law has repercussions on this global financial city, as global banks now screen clients’ accounts, public speeches, interviews and online posts.
2. Recently HSBC questioned me abt my royalty income from the sales of my new book “Unfree Speech”. In the new era that HK’s speech becomes unfree, nothing is more ironic when book sales could be politically sensitive in this city once known to free and open on China’s soil.
3. Absolutely unimaginable how far this financial censorship will go, esp under vaguely defined law, Beijng’s tightening red lines and its thriving wolf-warrior diplomatic ambitions. One thing is sure - Beijing clamps down on dissidents in China by controlling their accounts.
4. When having “conscience” stickers, holding blank placards & voting in hkprimaries are framed as inciting subversion, a large-scale crackdown on pro-democracy protesters' finances is on the way, this time including ex-pats & international institutions that the new law covers.
https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/1285166646554963969
