As police scrutiny tightens, Hong Kongers use Tinder and Pokemon Go to organize protests

As protests in Hong Kong enter their seventh week, protest organizers are worried that the police might be infiltrating Telegram groups; instead, they've taken to organizing protests by sending messages over Tinder and Pokemon Go, and by using Apple's ad-hoc, serverless Airdrop protocol.

This poster inviting people for a game of Pokmon Go appeared on Reddit-like forum LIHGK. Besides hunting Pokmon, people were also invited to participate in other activities such as sightseeing to defy the assembly ban. (Picture: lihkh.com)

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