by Hal Brown
Each day I post a variety of stories that pique my interest, sometimes with my own editorial comment or snarky photo manipulations (see below) on my modestly named blog, HalBrown.org. The readership while small (about 7000 click a month) has readers from around the world.
Until a about two weeks ago half to a third of the readers were logging on from Hong Kong as were reading from the United States. On a few days more people logged on from Honk Kong than did from the United States.
This week there were none at all leading me to wonder if the Chinese have cracked down on Internet access from residents trying to read all American websites, even small blogs like mine.
I have been covering the Chinese crackdown on protestors and dissidents in Hong Kong, most recently the story described in this article: Prominent Hong Kong Publisher Arrested Under New National Security Law. I also cover the ethnic cleansing of the Uighur minorities with links to articles like this: China Suppression Of Uighur Minorities Meets U.N. Definition Of Genocide, Report Says.
I generally posted excepts in case readers are reluctant to go to the major media sites out of fear of being monitored by Chinese security.
I have no way of knowing what has happened. Was just going to post the text of this diary on the blog but I didn’t have anything original to write for Daily Kos so I thought I’d post it here with my two embellishments of articles about Kamala Harris.