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by CapacitorSet 2520 days ago
I fail to see how this would be of any help, especially the former. To me it looks like a feel-good action with virtually no political impact.
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I believe the intended impact is to prevent pictures of oneself from becoming famous, by making sure that they are censored.

The censorship trick won't work globally, and won't block authorities from seeing the picture, but I think the real goal is to avoid becoming individually well known within China as a dissident.

I think covering themselves with posters of the Tank man will work as well.
> I fail to see how this would be of any help

It would make sharing images of the protest on the mainland difficult.