MOVE,
COUNTERMOVE
Yes, authoritarians have co-opted digital technology.
But the story is far from over.
BY ZEYNEP TUFEKCI
It was a sweltering August Saturday in Hong Kong, and the authorities
had just shut down one of the most important technologies in the city:
the MTR, Hong Kong’s uber-efficient subway system. So the protesters
walked.QThe demonstrators were in their 12th week of continuous action;
they’d been marching, singing, occupying streets, forming human chains,
confronting police. They started when the city’s chief executive, Carrie
Lam—a leader essentially handpicked by Beijing—introduced a bill that
would allow Hong Kong’s government to extradite suspects to main-
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