in reply to these messages: “上面班人真搞笑 扮晒正義之士 話你地知我一定搞得成!” which can be translated to English as follows: “The above persons are really funny, pretending to be men of justice, I tell you I will successfully organize it for sure.” 9. After that, a number of persons posted responses in the Message Board and some scolded the Defendant. Most were disgusted and were resented by the contents of the Defendant’s First Message, and some of the respondents claimed that they had reported the matter to the police. The Defendant then wrote the following in English at 11:40 p.m. on 13 August 2005: “Hum …… reported to the police huh? CAN!” CATCH ME …… IF YOU 10. At 11:39 a.m. on 13 August 2005 and 4:42 p.m. on 14 August 2005, a person calling himself “William Wong” sent 2 e-mails to the Defendant’s e-mail address. The first e-mail reads: “係咪真先玩老 強” (translated as “really going to rape?”), and the second one reads: “有人嗎” (translated as “Anybody here?”). The Defendant did not respond to these e-mails. 11. There were a total of 76 responses to the First Message posted by the Defendant. Amongst those, two persons with the code-names 4

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