Originally Posted by
moondog
My hunch is that a dislike for the PRC government could be at play here, as I've never met anyone from HK or Taiwan that couldn't make their way through a mainland newspaper or website; aside from the 80% of the characters that are identical, most simplifications aren't all that difficult to piece together.
Meet another. Simplified isn't self-explanatory and requires training to read, contrary to notions that it's some natural, superior evolution of Chinese.