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Time to go.
ALT Cartoon panel of The Incredible Hulk with his arms around Dr Strange and someone else walking away from the camera and saying, "Come friends – let us go away from this dumb place."
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If HKU upholds freedom of speech then it is notable that the video of my High Table Dinner Speech "Freedom and the Future of China" at HKU Chi Sun College on 30-Oct-2018 has been taken down, along with all other such speeches. Anyway, the text is here: webb-site.com/articles/chisu…
David Webb said his proposal for a public transparency project was rejected by the University of Hong Kong.
HKU's response to @AFP:
"(HKU) is an institution dedicated to academic excellence, we will continue to uphold academic freedom and the freedom of thought and speech."
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Three recipients of National Endowment for Democracy funding told @thewirechina they were notified that NED had suspended payments to them because its own funding had been frozen. @eliotcxchen on the impact:
thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/…
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After its head and staff were taken away by police for questioning, and office raided, HKPORI is effectively shutting down itself gradually
As the Spring Festival comes to an end, the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) has again reviewed its development and made some decisions. Full announcement: pori.hk/article/special-anno…
Somehow HKU's boilerplate generic response that doesn't even mention Webb's proposal or acknowledge what the actual question was about doesn't fill me with confidence about their alleged commitment to academic freedom and freedom of speech.
David Webb said his proposal for a public transparency project was rejected by the University of Hong Kong.
HKU's response to @AFP:
"(HKU) is an institution dedicated to academic excellence, we will continue to uphold academic freedom and the freedom of thought and speech."
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Uyghur historian Tursunjan Hezim, the founder of the Orkhun website, which archived a vast collection of books and materials on #Uyghur history before it was shut down by Beijing, was sentenced to life in prison in 2022.
rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/…
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"Jesus’ parents were also obliged to flee from their country and seek refuge in Egypt, to save the life of their Child: the Messiah, the Son of God was a refugee."
Pope Benedict XVI.
Angelus, January 16, 2011
Image: "Our Lady of the Journey" by @KLICONS
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DeepSeek's censorship is no match for the jailbreakers of Reddit
(from u/JimRice18)
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News Roundup | Beijing altered US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Chinese name, possibly to bypass sanctions and allow his visit despite a travel ban, rfa reports.
📖 Read more: t.ly/RbUMH
#ChinaPolitics #MarcoRubio #USChinaRelations #Xinjiang #HumanRights
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Centre for Refugees in Hong Kong says families waiting in the city for 10+ years to be re-settled in the US have been told they now cannot go because of Trump immigration policy.
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So, this erroneous take on a #DEI hire is synonymous with ‘not a white man’?
Hmm.
Exhibit A: Why We Need humane, strategic DEI policies and practices
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Spearheaded by the president's own memecoin, people including Donald Trump are rushing to cash in on Donald Trump’s inauguration and second term in office. wired.trib.al/gtUc1HM
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When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps:
1️⃣ Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy, and insincere.
2️⃣Rally Trump, who riffs in front of a cheering crowd and is wild, aggressive, and more true to the person Trump really is.
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Trump is going to pause this ban and look like a hero for doing it. No one in Congress is going to want to own it and TikTok will live on in the US. Not going anywhere.
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Meta is ending its partnership with U.S. fact-checking organizations, such as ours, but we’d like to reassure our readers: FactCheck.org isn’t going anywhere. Our journalists will continue to provide nonpartisan coverage of false and misleading political claims, helping you to sort fact from fiction, just as we have done for more than 20 years.
