For Hong Kong protesters, masks shield against Big Brother

For her many critics, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam pushed the freewheeling international hub for trade, business, ideas and innovation one step closer to that dark scenario with her decision Friday to criminalize the wearing of masks, invoking rarely used emergency powers to expedite the ban and bypass the legislature.

But in Hong Kong, protesters say the shadow cast by China over the territory makes their situation unique. Hong Kong's government says none of its departments use facial recognition technology in conjunction with the tens of thousands of CCTV cameras it has installed to help with policing, crowd control and other jobs across the territory.

For the many in Hong Kong who visit family and do business in the mainland, there are also concerns of being swept up by the opaque legal system there if identified as having joined the protests. Staying on the sidelines of a small, peaceful sit-down rally where a couple of hundred people chanted slogans for an hour before dispersing, an office worker in polished shoes and neatly ironed pants said the only reason he wasn't demonstrating with the others was because he hadn't brought a mask.

Isn't it interesting how the crooked media are trying to use the Honk Kong protest, where gov't has cracked down on people wearing masks to prevent facial recognition by camera's everywhere. Big bro watching everywhere in China. This they're trying to compare to ANTIFA in Canada.

Hong Kong is part of China.

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