In the summer of 2020, after discussions involving 200 Hong Kong people, Beijing passed the National Security Law for our city, dropping it on our heads fully formed, with no chance of amendment. The international press reported that it had killed freedom of the press and "has in effect ended the autonomy promised under the 'one country, two systems' arrangements that was supposed to pertain in Hong Kong until 2047", according to the Economist. These reports were the opposite of the truth, and could be disproved in five seconds flat. Hong Kong websites were still full of energetic criticism of China, cartoons of Xi Jinping proliferated, and I continued to make jokes and memes about our leaders, just to see if I could. (I could.) To people in Hong Kong, it was obvious that the law hadn't killed the free press, but was targeted at the underground subversives attempting to overthrow the government. But the mainstream media did not and could not cover this angle, as it would expose the truth, which is that they had been fooled by a subversive committee of pro-US people and agents from the revolution industry from day one. So they simply didn't go near the real story.