Demonstrators make use of high-tech services to keep their struggle alive and evade being tracked.
Soon afterwards, anonymous adverts appeared online calling for a mass Pokemon Go hunt in a town where the suspected attackers had congregated a week earlier.
Crowds were eventually dispersed with tear gas as police and protesters clashed into the late evening."We will occasionally 'play' Pokemon Go, or take part in 'Bible reading groups' or 'history tours'."Mass demonstrations against a now-suspended extradition bill started in Hong Kong in the spring. Among the protesters' demands are amnesty for anyone arrested during the demonstrations and greater choice in future elections held in the semi-autonomous city.
"Information typically included real-time locations of the police force, the situations at different front lines on different streets and locations of first aid stations, gas masks, goggles, bottles of water."
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