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After the media, landlords will be the next target
https://hk.appledaily.com/opinion/20210517/BIW343AKIRHSTGFFTVT4Q26I7I/
This is a game of boiling frogs. Protesters and politicians are the first group of people to be snatched. The message is that “only a small number of people” are targeted. The aim is to create a deterrence effect. I won’t go into detail here as there are only so many column inches. Meanwhile, some outspoken media outlets are being sorted out. For example, leading journalists of the mainstream outlet Cable TV (1097.HK) have resigned en masse not long ago, and Bao Choy, a producer of RTHK’s “Hong Kong Connection”, was prosecuted last month.
In the latest incident, the government has frozen Jimmy Lai’s assets, including 71.26 percent of his shares in Apple Daily’s parent company Next Digital (0282.HK), of which he is the major shareholder, as well as his holdings in three other private companies held in local banks.
After sorting out members of the opposition and media outlets that monitor the government, the focus of the game will be shifted to landlords, in similar vein as the Land Reform launched by Mao Zedong in the 1950s that saw the confiscation of landlords’ land.
Having collected in April a plot of land in Kam Sheung Road from CK Asset (1113.HK) and Henderson Land (0012.HK), citing the Land Resumption Ordinance, the government brandished its sword to Sun Hung Kai Properties (0016.HK) and New World Development (0017.HK), seizing from them plots of land in Yuen Long and Fanling this month, on grounds that it needs to build subsidized housing. So Hong Kong’s four biggest property developers have all got their fair share of being targeted, and Yuen Long rural leaders who gained notoriety in 2019 are not spared either.
Offering rewards based on merits is not an approach the current regime adopts. Following the 1967 riots, the British colonial government rewarded rural villages for showing it support during the riots by launching the Small Housing Policy (also known as the “Ding House Policy”) that took effect in December 1972. But rural leaders today will not see a replay of that. In 2019, they went to great lengths to help the authorities. Alas, some ding house landlords have recently been arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and some other rural villagers have had their ancestral houses seized by the government on grounds of the Land Resumption Ordinance.
Today, the ordinance can be used to target anyone, and no one can figure out the government’s land seizure strategy. The plots collected by the government are not those that have long remained undeveloped but those with clearly laid out development plans. Apparently, what the government is doing has no logic. On the face of it, it occupies the moral high ground, when in fact it may just want to demonstrate its authority.
On the internal side of things, the Hong Kong government and its disciplinary forces are on life support as they have been deprived of their real power. Externally, politicians, the media, businessmen and the rural elite are being targeted. Who will be the next target? Taking reference from the history of certain political party, one may note that there are not only licensed thugs but also unlicensed ones who are active in the underground economy. Who will call the shot after midnight in Hong Kong tomorrow? What do you think?
In the movie “Men Suddenly in Black”, Ninth Uncle and his buddies secretly went to a nightclub, only to be busted by their wives. To help his brothers flee, Ninth Uncle sacrificed himself. In today’s Hong Kong, who is Ninth Uncle? While you guys are having fun, have you ever spared a thought for Ninth Uncle? Or will you be the next Ninth Uncle?
同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過83萬的網紅serpentza,也在其Youtube影片中提到,There is a very interesting phenomenon in China, sensationalist news articles and web posts can overnight destroy an individual's reputation or skyroc...
moral high ground 在 孟買春秋 Facebook 的最佳解答
我沒有受過學術新聞的訓練,沒讀過理論或是媒體法等等,所以只是經驗談。
社群平台永久禁川普發言的確駭人聽聞,彷彿祖克伯是神,可以決定什麼樣的發言是對是錯,我覺得是因為社群平台和媒體不同,但越界擔任了比媒體更像媒體的角色更有影響力,卻又不受媒體法令的限制。
隨便舉一例。媒體最怕被告,例如我採訪了一個人,他說了污衊別人的話,到可以告的地步那種發言,被污衊的人可以告路透社,因為這個媒體刊登傳播了這個誹謗的訊息,這是大方向,當然其中還有許多細節,至少在英國是如此。
各國的媒體法令不同,因此有些訴訟案件在某些國家比較容易贏,例如告媒體誹謗,去英國提起訴訟勝算比較大。我在新加坡工作那幾年,也對誹謗特別敏感,因為很容易被告。這些基本的法律概念,都在路透社新進記者必上的課程中。遇到有任何可能會被告的新聞,一定要層層往上跟編輯確認,有時甚至會到公司的法務部門,確定沒問題才發新聞,而即使如此,還是有可能被告。
而臉書或是推特設立之初只是提供社交平台,雖然至今根本不止如此,但還是個私人公司是社群平台,不被歸類為媒體,我想應該也沒有受媒體法的規範。中天新聞台亂搞會拿不到衛星頻道執照,但臉書根本不需要媒體執照,應該有營業執照就好了。
因此最大的不同之一,我認為,是你在社群媒體上毀謗別人會被告,但對方可以告臉書嗎?好像沒聽說過。媒體會有 editorial decision 涵蓋種種媒體考量,但臉書的決策,純粹是商業考量或是某種程度上,好惡,例如禁了種種審查者認定的辱華發言。即使不是每個人都同意,但 NCC 可以說中天新聞不符合新聞報導原則不續照,誰能管到臉書?就算臉書在大勢底定之前,天天要說拜登已經當選,也沒人管得著。
臉書的運作,幾乎像是我開了一家店,喜歡你就來不喜歡別來,我也可以在門口設個牌子,說本店恕不接待檳榔及其支持者,這樣應該也沒有違法。
臉書這個私人企業站在 moral high ground, 決定什麼人的發言危害社會人群就禁了,這個恐怕得等到臉書用戶數雪崩,他們怕了不敢再胡搞,或是把臉書類的社交平台納入媒體規範,否則他們還是會理直氣壯做他們想做的事,覺得他們肩負的是莫名其妙的社會責任。
其實我很喜歡臉書能讓我和世界各地親友聯繫這個功能,有時只是想看看對方好不好按個讚,心情好就留一句話,沒有想要聊天。接著發現不要買報紙了,追踪臉書粉專就好。接著找到一群想法類似的人,開始發表自己的意見。。。縱有不滿,我也沒有打算離開。而像我這樣的人,也是造就臉書這個怪物的一份子吧。
圖文不符之這個外配會做麵包,剩下的麵包做 bread and butter pudding 思故鄉兩分鐘,然後說,幸好我在台灣不在英國。
moral high ground 在 Apple Daily - English Edition Facebook 的最佳解答
#Opinion by Stephen Vines|"The most cowardly cower under the tattered canopy of being, as they say, neither blue nor yellow and seek to occupy the moral high ground by asserting that they do not take sides but seek to be objective..."
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moral high ground 在 serpentza Youtube 的精選貼文
There is a very interesting phenomenon in China, sensationalist news articles and web posts can overnight destroy an individual's reputation or skyrocket them to fame and fortune! This is a story of how one of my subscribers very unfairly had his reputation almost completely destroyed, but was able to fight back and claim the moral high ground! Also I meet up with the Jayoe Nation, another China vlogger out of Ningbo!
The JaYoe nation's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RogueLifeStudios
Here are the articles mentioned in the video:
The Scumbag who killed his Chinese girlfriend:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4196420/Chinese-master-s-student-beaten-death-boyfriend.html
The British man who was dismembered by his mistresses' accomplices:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/14/exclusive-british-lecturer-murdered-in-china-was-caught-in-legal/
The Beijinger Article:
https://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2017/02/16/uk-tourism-ambassador-called-foreign-male-scum-warning-all-chinese-women
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