She was soon told by Sina admin to delete the message.
She did, and soon after, she posted:
《墨菲定律》很有趣：别跟傻瓜吵架，不然旁人会搞不清楚，到底谁是傻瓜?
Murphy's Law is so interesting, it says: Don't quarrel with an imbecile, else people might get confused as to who the idiot is.*
内地有内地的规矩...好，我删！但不公平的事还是不想再看到...尤其发生在平民百姓身上。
The mainland has its own rules. Fine, I deleted it! But I really don't want to see such injustice, particularly to the average person.*
Screenshot from her Weibo page
Hong Kongers are notorious for being apolitical, but also extremely susceptible to messages in mass media. Given the extremely low levels of media literacy, messages from pop stars are usually well-received. (Look at all the celebrity endorsed diet ads...)
Already there are people coming out to say how much they admire Gigi because of this incident. So will her little run-in help drill into HKer's heads that China's prevention of free speech could one day be imposed on us?
To read more:
Story from Apple Daily here and here (in Cantonese).
Some blogger/forum commentary:
(so far all in Chinese)...
MO's notebook 3 to 4
鹿米館
阿休 Blog
she.com forums
*my very rough translations - couldn't find the original for that Murphy's Law!
