{"id":2344,"date":"2014-07-28T19:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T19:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2014-07-28T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T19:01:04","slug":"bloggers-reboot-democracy-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/bloggers-reboot-democracy-site","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers reboot democracy site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">Kenneth Lau<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monday, July 28, 2014<\/p>\n<p>A group of bloggers has set up a Facebook page for people&#8217;s commentaries on politics and other issues following the sudden closure of House News, a pro-democracy news site with strong ties to media <!--more-->mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying.<br \/>\nWithin 20 hours of it being set up on Saturday night, the House News Bloggers Group received more than 20,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the netizens, Alan Lau, proposed that everyone should financially support the webpage if needed, while another, Chu Nabuo, said: &#8220;The freedom of expression and the press will never die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>House News, a news website and blog founded in July 2012, was seen as pro-democracy.<\/p>\n<p>But on Saturday afternoon the website&#8217;s co-founder, Tony Tsoi Tung-ho, announced its closure, citing fear of political pressure and low advertising revenues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a businessman who always travels between Hong Kong and the mainland, I need to admit that I am really scared every time I cross the border,&#8221; Tsoi said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.com.hk\/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&amp;art_id=147780&amp;sid=42698632&amp;con_type=1&amp;d_str=20140728&amp;fc=10\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Lau Monday, July 28, 2014 A grou &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/bloggers-reboot-democracy-site\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,370],"tags":[90,677,477],"views":1190,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}