A phone displaying the App Store page for the mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire. Ryland Barton/NPR
Ryland Barton/NPR
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police on Tuesday warned people against downloading and using a gaming app that it says advocates “armed revolution” and the overthrow of the “fundamental system” of Mainland China.
Anyone who downloads or uses the app, or makes in-app purchases in it, would be violating the city’s controversial national security law, the police said in a statement on Tuesday.
The crackdown on the gaming app and its users is