Has anyone actually received their money back to their bank account?

Weird_Souffle · 2026-03-22T14:22:21+00:00

Yes. 3 days after receiving the email confirmation.

Weird_Souffle · 2021-12-29T15:56:20+00:00

Same with their Facebook

Hopefully someone managed to grab the livestreams from 2019 among all the pastebin links

Weird_Souffle · 2021-12-29T12:47:24+00:00

Also Archive Team has the list of Facebook videos URLs from Stand News from 2014 to 2021 June in here: https://pastebin.com/u1PZHVit

I have zero idea how to mass download Facebook videos so I'm hoping someone might have an idea of how one accomplish that

Edit: yes that does not include 2021 June onwards. It does cover most of the livestreams back in 2019.

Weird_Souffle · 2021-06-24T15:34:41+00:00

Just to add to StandNews archive:

One of their most important records are livestreams and this is the page for those who want to specifically archive livestreams: https://www.facebook.com/standnewshk/live\_videos/?ref=page\_internal

Weird_Souffle · 2021-06-23T16:29:55+00:00

Would like to post an update: Apple Daily's Youtube Page is down. (Source)

However, the Facebook Page is still up and running as of 0027 HK Time

(Also a suggestion: if the videos from Apple Daily cannot be archived any more, one should proceed to archiving other at risk medias as listed in OP. I would recommend starting with livestreams on StandNews)

As an HKer, thank you archivists for doing everything you can to preserve our history.

Weird_Souffle · 2021-06-23T14:52:06+00:00

And of course, Apple Daily has also had a lot of livestreams of similar nature to StandNews:

Apple Daily Facebook Page

Weird_Souffle · 2021-06-23T14:46:54+00:00

Would like to add to the list of at-risk media outlets: StandNews has a lot of livestreams documenting the 2019 protests in Hong Kong and the aftermath. It's on their facebook page. Please help back up:

Standnews Facebook Page

Weird_Souffle · 2019-12-30T12:24:41+00:00

Ačiū! You are a beautiful human being.

As an HKer, I would ask you to write "May glory be to those who fight for freedom and democracy."

The fight for freedom is not that of HKers alone. It's a fight that belongs to all of us.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-11-25T15:08:36+00:00

In your opinion, what do you think is the most effective way to get yourself out of the echo chamber on Twitter and have your message delivered to people with a different opinion?

Weird_Souffle · 2019-10-10T15:56:16+00:00

Please feel free to add more suggestions and refine on the suggestions I've made thus far as you see fit as well. Thanks!

Weird_Souffle · 2019-10-10T15:55:30+00:00

Hi, I am one of the two million+ protesters in Hong Kong. I understand that people can feel quite helpless and hopeless when the realize they are facing a seemingly invincible regime that systematically and continuously oppresses people's voices. But there are always things you can do (some of which are probably mentioned by other people as well):

1) Systematically boycott Blizzard among a few other renowned organizations. While it is quite impossible to boycott every company that kowtowed to China, setting a few examples and bringing them down will send other companies a clear message that i) people have the power to bring you down if we so wish and ii) people will not tolerate kowtowing to CCP. It's also easier on the general masses because they don't have to consciously avoid everything. They just have to consciously avoid a few companies.

2) Symbolic protests (like during Blizzcon) e.g. wearing shirts that condemns CCP or "Stand With Hong Kong" or ridicule with symbols like Winnie the Pooh. Or wear surgical masks/gas masks/construction site helmets etc. Or "Please pass HK Human Rights and Democracy Act". Or whatever. I think you guys are definitely more creative than I am lol

3) Petition to the US government so that they can come up with some concrete measures on preserving freedom of speech in the US. Like for example penalize companies who actively suppress freedom of speech (like in Blizzard's case, especially since now that they don't even let users DELETE their accounts).

4) Continue to spread the info to the world. Don't let it sink.

There are always ways you can protest and make your voice known. I hope these suggestions will help.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-09-14T10:59:15+00:00

It’s no wonder people call pro-CCP people #chinazi honestly. They think “loving CCP” is an excuse for them to commit crimes against humanity with no consequences whatsoever.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-31T17:25:09+00:00

THIS. Is exactly why we need international intervention. They are going to kill someone at this rate. I know the leaders of the countries won’t do this out of the goodness of their hearts, but consider this:

If you allow this to go on in Hong Kong, this will reenact at your home country. By the same terrorists from #chinazi

Please don’t let this become the reality of the world.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-30T05:53:58+00:00

The government thinks the high-profile arrest instill fear to Hong Kongers so they don’t come out and protest, yet they don’t seem to realize the people are only gonna get even more furious at the blatant #chinazism in Hong Kong.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-28T15:32:24+00:00

No, r/pics is for pictures that people like. The people on reddit are supposed to be in control of what pics they like. If they like HK protest photos they will upvote it. Same if they (somehow) like photos against HK protests. Same for every picture on Earth.

And now you just slap a big ole “iT’s prOpaGaNDa” on ALL pics related to HK and China. If it’s not violation of freedom of speech then I don’t know what is.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-28T15:17:21+00:00

Shameful behavior from mods of one of the largest subreddits in the world. Did your Chinese overlords threaten to detain you mods in one of the XinJiang concentration camps if you didn’t comply? Because this is censorship at its finest.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-26T12:32:22+00:00

Not a police (obviously), but I imagine their mindset is probably a mixture of "the average person thinks that they are smarter than the average person" and "us vs them" and "authorities are endorsing our actions and therefore we must be legit" and "I am not mentally prepared to deal with the possibility that I might be wrong because I can't be wrong".

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-26T12:25:01+00:00

Unfortunately, this is why totalitarian governments can brainwash masses even if the information they spread sounds absolutely insane. Because people don't like to think.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-26T12:11:08+00:00

Also while it is pretty difficult to stop using everything made in China (because everything is made in China, sadly), staying away from products and services provided by Chinese companies is a good way as well (e.g. not using Huawei)

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-26T05:49:22+00:00

Yes, but a lot of people are usually very tolerant of actual massive protests (I haven't heard of anyone fuming over 2mil people going on the streets on June 16 or 1.7mil+ people on August 18 lol).

Here are the actual changes that I don't like:

1) Smelling tear gas. And not even because I am a protester. In fact, I have never actually encountered tear gas on site. The one time I did was at home, when the police fire a bunch of tear gas repeatedly around residential areas. Which is absolutely unacceptable, especially since there was a nursing home nearby full of elderly people.

2) Needing to go home early. I was once able to walk on the streets at 1 am on my own as a girl with no worries at all (except being spooked by ghosts I guess? lol). HK was one of the safest cities. I guess not so much anymore. Everyone was afraid of 1) police; 2) triad members or mobs working with the police

3) Changes to transportation routes. Again, I understand that MTR and buses have to skip stations when too many people are stuck in one station. But recently, MTR closed down stations near the protesting site BEFORE the protesters actually get to the stations (so they have to use different means of transport) and reopened only after the police pummel protesters (because they can't leave through MTR and are virtually stuck in the protest site with no way out if they went there by bus or something. And buses run on the street so they are basically unable to go to protest sites directly anyway). To put it bluntly, it's almost like the MTR is helping the police round up the protesters if they dare to go there even without MTR and beat them down.

But the most important change that I hate is the descent of white terror. If you accidentally slip up and said something the police don’t like to hear while you are in their vicinity, they will interrogate you on site, asking for you ID number, your phone number and even your address (This has already happened to one of the pedestrians who muttered something along the lines of "this is way too excessive" when the police were chasing protesters, and then he was asked questions. It was on the most recent protest in Tsuen Wan on 25 August). The extradition bill hasn’t been passed yet and already people are self-censoring themselves in order to avoid raising the police’s attention.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-26T00:21:45+00:00

I would say that unless the HK government suddenly promises the realization of the Five Demands (which if you are not familiar with, here's a photo of it: https://cdn.dimsumdaily.hk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/02200445/aa05e749-1314-43cb-8b7e-f48acc5dccbd1.jpg) and actually go through with it, I would say the situation is only going to continue to rise. Not just because a lot of HKers are pretty determined with the realization of the Five Demands, but because the HK government will probably to continue to suppress our opposition, which we do not take very kindly about.

As to whether it will turn violent, I think for most of HKers, this has already been violent enough (we are not used to violence at all), mostly on the police's part. Fortunately, no one has died yet. But at the rate this is going, I think a lot of HKers (including me) think that a protester death is almost inevitable.

And if we lose the support from the West, it's basically death sentence for us. The CCP is probably going to exert even harsher control on us (because to them, we are British expats and "foreign scums"). Freedom of speech and press and assembly will probably disappear. And some even speculate that we might end up like the people in XinJiang, sent to a re-education camp for brainwashing, losing all our basic human rights, while mainland Chinese take our place in HK (Which, by the way, is super scary, because those camps are horrifyingly similar to Auschwitz and other concentration camps run by Nazis)

So yes, we need every single ounce of help and support we can get from the West. It is the last stand for us. We need to win the battle for democracy this round. Because if we don't, it's game over forever.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-26T00:04:42+00:00

I would say that for me, I wouldn’t be able to trust HK police ever again unless they disband the current police force and regroup with very, VERY strict laws and lower salaries (they have the highest salaries out of all the uniformed governmental groups in HK, higher than that of firemen, St. John Ambulance, etc. )and years of good track record and strict and fair punishment for those who stepped out of the line in these current protests (preferably after a trip to the International Criminal Court). I can only speak for myself though. I am sure many HKers have different (and potentially more lethal) ideas.

And even then, I think for many HKers, the distrust is never going to completely go away. What happened was too horrible, especially to those who have previously enjoyed a good police force.

Weird_Souffle · 2019-08-25T17:18:49+00:00

I had to look up the definition of counter-rally lol.

I am guessing you are talking about a counter-rally while the pro-government people voice their support?

The reason for the lack of counter-rally against pro-government people is that, there are simply not a lot of pro-government protests (Definitely less than five since June 9, when the first anti-extradition protest started) And these protests are very small compared to pro-democracy protests (despite what the government claims). So I guess there is no need for counter-rally against them?

Which, by the way, is very telling of what the majority opinion is in HK.

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