YouTube has taken down the campaign channel of John Lee, Hong Kong’s only candidate for its top leadership position, citing sanctions imposed on him by the U.S.
“Google complies with applicable U.S. sanctions laws and enforces related policies under its Terms of Service,” a company spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. “After review and consistent with these policies, we terminated the Johnlee2022 YouTube channel.”Separately, Facebook owner Meta, also citing U.S. sanctions, said Lee could maintain “demonetized presences” on Facebook and Instagram and that it had taken steps to prevent the use of payment services.
Critics say those freedoms have been greatly curbed under the national security law, which was imposed in June 2020 and makes the crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison. The sanctions freeze any U.S. assets held by the officials and bar Americans from doing business with them.
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