in that very that very tight area and lots and lots of footage of him getting tackled and kicked to the ground. and so those kinds of clips really go viral very quickly. it takes a human sensors, even human sensors augmented by ai algorithms, time to figure out what they need to trace and then to clean it up afterwards. now that cleaning up is what we re seeing. i think over the last few days there s been a lot less protest related material, but there is a lot of kind of what i would call kind of gray space material, which is complaint people complaining about the lockdowns and the impacts of lockdowns on their livelihoods, not directly calling for an end to the policy or calling even for the leadership to step down. but clearly there are some very sharp criticism that is being allowed to be aired right now. and howard from the bbc chinese service, yuan was just talking about ed lawrence. being forced or asked to remove whatever they had shot on their phones of the protest in the stree
about what it is like to report on china, as protests sweep the country. and it s 25 years since the uk s rockstar games created grand theft auto. is it a prized cultural export or society s dark mirror? shouting. the sound of protests in guangzhou in south east china, one of many that began over the weekend. they are on a scale that has not been seen for more than 30 years, as demonstrators rail against their country s covid policy. with me to discuss the challenges of reporting the protests and wider press freedom in china are howard zhang, editor of the bbc s china service, joseph menn, technology reporter at the washington post, and yuan yang, europe china correspondent at the financial times. welcome to you all. i would like to start to talk about what has been happening to journalists during the anti lockdown. this was the bbc s ed lawrence on sunday. are you 0k? barry, call the consulate now!
so that is happening. ed lawrence himself pointed out that a domestic chinese journalist would have faced much harsher treatment. howard, is there a difference between the treatment of national domesticjournalists and ones from the bbc? absolutely. a couple of factors. one, the chinese traditionally have this thing about face. so foreigners, international journalists, they tend to try to keep an air of legitimacy for themselves, so they tend not to come after them, they will first sort out the domesticjournalists before they go after the international. but at a certain point, when they think it is really serious, that they will go after anybody. yuan. i think what you are conscious of when you are a journalist in china, as a foreign national with a british passport, if the worse comes to worse, you can probably leave at any point you have the production
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