self-censorship is something i’ve been thinking about a lot because of:
- effects on social life after getting cancelled
- the National Security Law which prevents me from publishing anything about Hong Kong and Kowloon’s rich history of freedom, since I’ll likely be jailed.
It is vile to suppress your words because of other’s feelings, but as long as I live in China today (Hong Kong), despite the economic and social freedoms; I can’t publish anything against the Chinese state for fear for my bodily autonomy and physical violence in the form of imprisonment.
I would like to apologise for my lack of integrity on these counts, and hope to do better in the coming weeks.
pierre / Pierre Gildenhuys
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2023-02-16 02:09:45
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