Name: Because China: Hong Kong is showing the world how to protest anonymously [TRAILER]
Uploaded: 2020-01-02T08:14:15.000Z
Duration: 2 min 30 s
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- So we're in, kind of, the main hub  of Hong Kong's financial center.

People have decided to take time  out of their lunch break

Almost none of the people here  knew they would be doing this today.

Throughout the movement, protesters  have kept up pressure

on the government, without leaders,  political parties or planning.

Instead, they organized spontaneously, through technology.

We heard about this action through  Instagram earlier in the day.

we got the location through a  messaging app called Telegram.

Over the course of an hour, more  and more people showed up.

This is how this movement is different  from Hong Kong's 2014 umbrella revolution

Updates are shared on encrypted  apps and live streams.

The internet has long been used  to organize political movements,

but governments are becoming more capable

of surveilling and controlling  what happens online.

The most sophisticated system is in China,

where the government monitors people's online speech

- The surveillance ecosystem has expanded  considerably over the last decade.

So, protesters are using technology in new ways.

This allows them to organize without leaders

and express dissent without revealing their identity.

It's protest for the era of mass surveillance.

Hong Kong, facing the threat of China, is leading the way.

We're traveling around the world to understand how China is changing...

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