PRIVACY ABUSED

Privacy is no longer respected, either, as radicals created a torrent of abuse and terror online with the rampant doxxing.

The Australian journalist helping Ma was immediately judged and avenged, too, with his name and picture circulated among protestors.

Previously, privacy about more than 2,200 police officers and their families has been abused online, with floods of targeted harassment, profanities and life threats, after their identity cards, telephone numbers, home address and other private information were illegally leaked online.

Such abuses have moved from online to the real world, where radicals are more than willing to take off-limits actions.

In September, a mob showed up and deliberately set off the fire alarm at a hall where an off-duty police officer was holding a wedding banquet. More annoyingly, the mob cursed and insulted the wedding with typical Chinese funeral customs, such as delivering a severed pig's head and tossing joss paper at the scene.

Lin Ka-wing, a 40-year-old teacher at Tsing Yi Trade Association Tseung Kwan O Kindergarten, was arrested and charged last week with assaulting a three-year-old girl on her chest multiple times inside a school toilet in September because the kid said she has family members working for the police.