Internet platforms, including Google, may have to restrict access to a protest song that became popular during the 2019 antigovernment protests in Hong Kong after an appeals court in the city upheld a government push to ban it online. In the latest step in a continuing clampdown on dissent in the former British colony, the decision reversed a lower-court ruling in July that said the government’s proposed injunction against dissemination of the song “Glory to Hong Kong” was unnecessary, because broadcasting the song was effectively illegal under a national-security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in 2020.
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