The discussion being entirely banned on Weibo also implies that it's deliberate.
Try searching "李嘉诚发声" and you'll get a message saying "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, this page is not found"
Try searching "李嘉诚发声" and you'll get a message saying "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, this page is not found"
They want to paint the protesters as pro-HK independence but in fact this is not one of our five demands.
And of course they block all the stuffs that make the HK gov and police look bad.
I have also noticed sharing videos WeChat seems to be on whitelist mode 2 nights ago.
Speculation is that there were heavy traffic for sharing globally resulting in all videos on WeChat were temporarily shadow banned until individually approved.