Former Hong Kong newspaper editor ridiculed for standard of English in complaint to Mark Zuckerberg

Anti-Occupy campaigner Robert Chow Yung is in the spotlight again - this time for an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg complaining about deleted posts.

But Chow's critics were quick to seize on his comments - not because of his message on censorship, but because of what they called "poor" English from the veteran journalist, who once led an English-language newspaper.

In the letter - titled "An open Email to Mark Zuckerberg" - Chow complained that a series of posts from his new online media company HKG Pao were removed by the social media giant.

"Dear Mark, You don't know me. My name is Robert Yung CHOW, a very small Facebook user from Hong Kong," wrote Chow, editor-in-chief of The Hong Kong Standard in the 1980s.

He said four of the 18 posts made by HKG Pao on its Facebook fan page - including a piece poking fun at new Federation of Students leader Nathan Law Kwun-chung - were taken down by Facebook within 30 hours.

Chow wrote that people had suggested to him Facebook was either taking "a political stand" in Hong Kong or trying to "satisfy a private, political agenda".

"I cannot for the life of me believe the former is true. As for the latter, I can offer no evidence except to say: heaven forbid," he wrote. He ended by demanding a response from Zuckerberg.