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[#UnfreeSpeech by Joshua Wong review – a call to arms for the Snapchat generation]
theguardian.com/books/2020/jan…
1/ This book is a memoir of an extraordinary decade in which Wong went from a nerdy obsession with Marvel comics to Netflix documentary in which he was characterised as a superhero for democracy. It's a call to arms to a generation that has known nothing but Instagram & Snapchat.
2/ A manifesto to follow news sites for warning signs of political polarisation, to use fact-checking media, to get out from behind their screens to attend rallies & organise election campaigns & to remember any effort to preserve democracy starts with 1 voice, flyer and speech.
3/ Wong sought to use his platform to argue that what began as HK’s student protest is increasingly all of our concern. HK is in many ways the test case, he insists, not just for China to try its authoritarian muscle but also as part of a much broader threat to global democracy.
4/ However modest, however young, the world over. “The ‘infinity war’ that has ravaged Hong Kong for years, I’m afraid, may be soon coming to a political theatre near you…” hyperurl.co/unfreespeech
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