Efforts to ban “Glory to Hong Kong,” a song popularized during pro-democracy protests in 2019, could set up a legal battle between tech giants and Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is seeking a court order aimed at banning its residents from playing protest song “Glory to Hong Kong," which can be used to advocate the separation of the city from China.

Officials are seeking a court order to block online dissemination of a popular pro-democracy anthem, in the first major test for U.S. tech platforms over politically sensitive content.

Hong Kong has gone to court to ban the song Glory to Hong Kong, which became the unofficial anthem of the 2019 mass protests and has been played in error at several sporting events since instead of China’s national anthem.

HSBC came under fresh heat from a pro-democracy group in Hong Kong, after the bank closed the organization's accounts earlier this year. Five members of the League of Social Democrats, among the last remaining opposition groups in Hong Kong,

Hong Kong’s government says it's seeking a court order to prohibit people from broadcasting or disseminating the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” after it was mistakenly played as the city’s anthem at several international sporting events in the past

The Hong Kong government said on Tuesday that it asked a court to ban a protest song in a bid to prevent people from inciting secession or insulting China's national anthem.