WASHINGTON, D.C. Jun. 9 (DPI) – Massive protests in Hong Kong today over Beijing’s plan to extradite people to mainland China – for any reason – got widespread coverage in the major media here in the US.  But both the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times omitted comment boards from their coverage, a clear show of restraint as it seeks to maintain some access to Communist-controlled China.

According to organizers more than a million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest Beijing’s latest move to control Hong Hong, which through the 20th century was a British protectorate and retains some sense of Western tolerance, openness and individual freedoms.

The Washington Post, on the other hand, had nothing to lose by keeping its comment board alive: It, with the UK’s Guardian, has already been barred from the Chinese internet.

As expected The Post’s readers teed off on China and its Communist rulers. The most popular comments:

I understand the people of Hong Kong feeling as if this was their last chance for autonomy, freedom and resistance to an authoritarian government because I feel the same way since Trump stole the Oval Office.
I hope their protests are effective and I admire their courage.

Don’t stop fighting Hong Kong!  Don’t give up.

China is a police state ruled by an imperialistic authoritarian regime. It’s about as un-democratic as you can get. Their goal is to slowly grind Hong Kong into submission – and it won’t stop there.

The basic problem is China is a nation run by thugs, who are scared to death of the prospect that the millions of their citizens who have no personal rights or protections will see that other Chinese in Hong Kong are able to live and thrive in a much freer society than the one in which they are forced to live.