香港成為中美網絡自由鬥爭新前線 。隨著新國安法生效，香港政府正在製定網絡控制方案，以滿足地球上管得最多的審查機構——共產黨的需求，被夾在中間的是香港700萬居民以及美國互聯網巨頭。這可能會進一步加劇中美之間的緊張關係，技術本身已經成為這兩個經濟超級大國尋求擴大影響力和削弱彼此的一種手段。
年前2019，美國不批准Google的海底電纜拉到香港，只能到台灣......
當時或已知香港不可為了，然而不知道是2020年7月1日。
中國的港區國安法與世界各自由國家為敵，然而，類似美國各科技公司決戰香港，中國頂多慘勝.........
紐約時報簡單分析這讓各國頭痛問題：
| After China imposed a new security law on Hong Kong, Facebook, Google, Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Twitter and some other digital companies said they would temporarily stop handing over people’s information when the Hong Kong authorities ask for it. Here’s what Shira Ovide from our On Tech newsletter wrote about their decision. |
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| Going up against the new law could force those companies to shut down service in Hong Kong. It would also be a public defiance of China’s government that we rarely see from global companies. No one knows what happens next. |
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| U.S. internet companies face hard calls as they decide how and whether to comply with the divergent laws and norms of each country they operate in without violating their own missions. |
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| When it comes to China, those complications are multiplied by a thousand. The government and some of its supportive citizens are willing to punish global companies and organizations like the National Basketball Association that don’t go along with the government’s views of itself or the world. |
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| Companies with business in China have twisted themselves in knots, for example, trying not to offend the government by appearing to side with Hong Kong’s demonstrators pressing for autonomy. |
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| This Hong Kong law, however, presents the U.S. internet powers with one of those hard choices multiplied by a thousand. If they go along with China’s new law, they will likely face backlash from American politicians and their employees. |
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| If they don’t comply, China might make it impossible for the American internet companies to continue to operate in Hong Kong. It might seize the tech companies’ offices in the city or even arrest its employees. You can imagine how the U.S. government would respond to that. |
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| Even while they’re banned in China, the internet companies might not be able to avoid trouble with China. |
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Facebook won’t turn over Hong Kong user data
Facebook and its messaging service WhatsApp will temporarily
stop processing Hong Kong government requests for user data while it reviews the national security law imposed by Beijing.
The company said it would consult human rights experts to assess the law. The decision is a rare questioning of Chinese policy by an American internet company, and it gets at the question of how the security law will apply online.
Telegram, a messaging app popular with Hong Kong’s protesters, said on Sunday that it
would refuse requests from Hong Kong authorities for user data until an international consensus was reached on the changes in the city.
What’s next: Facebook’s move puts pressure on other tech giants like Apple, Google and Twitter, to clarify how they will deal with the Hong Kong security law.
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