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There are two major controversies regarding priority seats. First of all, people{{Who|date=January 2019}} think that only people in need can sit on the priority seats. Even if the train is full, priority seats are still left empty. This situation is common in Taiwan and Hong Kong.<ref name="apple20170118">{{Cite news |url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20170118/19900615 |title=怕網絡公審 73%中學生不坐關愛座 |trans-title=Afraid of cyber-trials, 73% of secondary school students do not sit on priority seats |work=Apple Daily | location=Hong Kong | date=2017-01-18 |language=zh}}</ref> People, especially young people,{{Who|date=January 2019}} are not willing to sit on the train as they are afraid of being morally criticized, scolded<ref>{{Cite web|title = 顏詩麗:讓座並非義務,也可以很優雅──台灣與日本的讓座文化 - 獨立評論@天下 - 天下雜誌|url = http://opinion.cw.com.tw/blog/profile/311/article/2469|website = 獨立評論@天下:最混亂的時代 最清明的聲音 - 天下雜誌|access-date = 2015-11-10}}</ref> or even [[cyberbullying|cyberbullied]] (like uploading their scenes of occupying priority seats to social networking websites which is sometimes not the truth). However, the priority seats are first-come-first-served. Priority seats are designed to promote the culture of offering seats to the needy. If there are no needy on the public transport, people are free to sit on the priority seats.
Also, many passengers{{Who|date=January 2019}} currently have little awareness of offering seats to people in need. They pretend not to notice other passengers in greater need for a seat. This situation is more common in China. People seated on priority seats refuse to move for people in greater need for a seat (the issue of cyberbullying mentioned in the previous paragraph is common due to such refusal). Some{{Who|date=January 2019}} suggest mandating the offer of seats to people in need by law just like some cities in the United States, Canada and Australia. But according to press release published by HKSAR government,<ref name=govhk20140709/> the government would like to promote such an act through the advocacy of a culture of courtesy rather than through legal means.
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