Tens of thou­sands of peo­ple in Hong Kong protest against attempts of the Com­mu­nist Par­ty to crush democ­ra­cy in Hong Kong. “The stu­dents are pro­tect­ing the right to vote, for Hong Kong’s future. We are not scared, we are not fright­ened, we just fight for it,” [Car­ol Chan, a 55-year-old civ­il ser­vice work­er who said she took two days off to join the protests after becom­ing angered over police use of tear gas Sun­day, quot­ed by CBC News.] Bei­jing’s mas­sive cen­sor­ship team on Wei­bo, the Par­ty-con­trolled cen­sored inter­net engine cre­at­ed and sup­plied by Amer­i­can cor­po­ra­tions, is work­ing over­time pre­vent­ing the peo­ple of Chi­na from see­ing such images. Read more »