<story><title>Apple Daily to shut in days unless government agrees to plea to unfreeze assets</title><url>https://en.appledaily.com/apple-daily-to-shut-in-days-unless-government-agrees-to-last-ditch-plea-to-unfreeze-assets/JKXIS3OPZNFIFAJWU3PMO2R6R4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicochrome</author><text>The majority of Hong Kong people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories, have anti-immigration sentiments, and racist ways of thinking, worse so because racial discrimination is just a way of life for many in HK, so I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say majority rules is the best argument here. Hong Kong isn&amp;#x27;t this shining jewel of liberalism by any means. All of it just gives China more justification for their actions.</text></item><item><author>agnesv</author><text>I would say to the majority of HK Apple Daily represents freedom and democracy, few refers it as “trash”</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>To some, Apple Daily represents democratic values such as a free press. Others view it as tabloid trash. I see it as an important tool of innovation in media. Lai pushed the envelope for Chinese language media, taking newsgathering and publishing far further than peer publications in Hong Kong and Taiwan.&lt;p&gt;Some of his innovations - such as 3D news event simulations that Lai&amp;#x27;s Next Media began publishing in the 2000s - made an impact far beyond Hong Kong and Taiwan (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;idUSTOE6AS04Q20101129&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;idUSTOE6AS04Q20101129&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad to see this entrepreneurial news venture come to an end like this. It&amp;#x27;s criminal that Lai and his top editors have been thrown in jail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Sorry for this being off-topic, but could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;You needn&amp;#x27;t use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;amp;dateRange=all&amp;amp;type=comment&amp;amp;storyText=false&amp;amp;prefix&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;query=community%20identity%20by:dang&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;amp;dateRange=all&amp;amp;type=comme...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Daily to shut in days unless government agrees to plea to unfreeze assets</title><url>https://en.appledaily.com/apple-daily-to-shut-in-days-unless-government-agrees-to-last-ditch-plea-to-unfreeze-assets/JKXIS3OPZNFIFAJWU3PMO2R6R4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicochrome</author><text>The majority of Hong Kong people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories, have anti-immigration sentiments, and racist ways of thinking, worse so because racial discrimination is just a way of life for many in HK, so I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say majority rules is the best argument here. Hong Kong isn&amp;#x27;t this shining jewel of liberalism by any means. All of it just gives China more justification for their actions.</text></item><item><author>agnesv</author><text>I would say to the majority of HK Apple Daily represents freedom and democracy, few refers it as “trash”</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>To some, Apple Daily represents democratic values such as a free press. Others view it as tabloid trash. I see it as an important tool of innovation in media. Lai pushed the envelope for Chinese language media, taking newsgathering and publishing far further than peer publications in Hong Kong and Taiwan.&lt;p&gt;Some of his innovations - such as 3D news event simulations that Lai&amp;#x27;s Next Media began publishing in the 2000s - made an impact far beyond Hong Kong and Taiwan (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;idUSTOE6AS04Q20101129&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;idUSTOE6AS04Q20101129&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad to see this entrepreneurial news venture come to an end like this. It&amp;#x27;s criminal that Lai and his top editors have been thrown in jail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RavlaAlvar</author><text>Dehumanising HK people by calling them racist. I really have to ask, who is the racist here?</text></comment>