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Telegram social media channel used by protesters for doxxing Hong Kong police suspended after leaking thousands of pictures and videos of officers and their families
- Channel named ‘dad finds boy’ on instant messaging app began blocking updates on Thursday
- Before its closure, channel had more than 200,000 followers who had posted more than 4,200 pictures and videos of police officers and their families
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A social media channel widely used by Hong Kong protesters to share personal details of police officers and their families has been suspended – two weeks after a court order came into effect to deter doxxing attacks.
The channel, named “dad finds boy” on the instant messaging app Telegram, began blocking updates from Thursday. The move was confirmed at a court hearing on Friday by lawyers representing the police and the city’s justice secretary.
Before its closure, the channel had more than 200,000 followers who had posted more than 4,200 pictures and videos of police officers and their families.
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In one of the most recent cases of doxxing police, details were leaked of an officer’s wedding in Tseung Kwan O on Sunday, with calls for people to crash the party. Student Chow Tsz-lok, believed to have been caught up in a dispersal operation that night, fell one floor in a car park and suffered severe brain injury, from which he later died.
Other websites later carried calls to target the newlywed officer, with a small number of users calling for revenge and saying they would shout “blood for blood” in his neighbourhood.
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