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Biased television and newspaper media.

government passing draconian copyright laws.

moral national education.

functional constituencies.

corrupt heads of state. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f5055f20-628b-11e1-872e-00144... (accepting free private jet flights but only paying economy fares for them.)

the candidate with most votes from the people have the least from representatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Chief_Executive_elect...

chinese influence on majority shareholders of radio stations; this one in particular is closing next month or so: http://www.dbc.hk, one of the major shareholders was even quoted saying "CCP wants to shut you down" (in chinese). http://www.scmp.com/article/1014470/politics-play-dbc-radios... (scmp is one of the most pro-beijing newspapers in hk, but I couldn't find any other article in english; yes I was surprised to find this there, no the quote isn't in the article.)

more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Beijing_camp (the most funded political party is the DAB, which is pro-beijing.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_legislative_election,...

In Hong Kong, even though pro-democracy party has more votes than pro-beijing parties, they have less seats.

Oh and just as a coincidence, today is election day in Hong Kong, tell your friends to vote!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19533116



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