China is like that one person on Twitter that can’t take any criticism and just blocks everyone. ©PewDiePie (banned in China after that)

Intro

We’re witnessing the biggest global people’s uprising the world has ever seen. We are one huge decentralized community connected together though the internet. The global solidarity is on an unprecedented level: from Hong Kong to Catalonia, Iran, Russia, Indonesia, Ecuador, Kashmir, Lebanon, Haiti, Bolivia, Chile, and many other places across the world. From pro-democracy and pro-independence movements, to environmental and animal rights activism. People across the world are increasingly expressing their discontent with government’s policies, and activists study each others experience in order to implement the best techniques in their movements.

Previously we’ve discussed how Hong Kong activists protect their identities in the digital space, which allows them to participate in the pro-democracy movement with minimum risks to their lives.

We’ve also discussed how HK activists use LIHKG, Reddit, Pincong, and GitHub to make collective decisions in a very decentralized manner, which is similar to how the crypto community operates for more than a decade.

Now let’s look closer at some tactics employed by Hong Kong activists to fight for the freedom in a digital space because these strategies can be used in any other social movement and in a crypto space. In 4 different sections of this article we will analyze memes & hashtags, hidden messages, mascots and many other tactics, so keep on reading.