[bgee]

> you need a license/approval before you can interview someone

[citation needed]

> Many western youtubers came under scrutiny for it.

came under scrutiny by whom? Their audience or CCP?

Disclaimer: I'm a China national.

[zenexer]

Their audience. If journalists are forcefully accompanied by government officials, their journalism can be influenced. This irreparably taints the integrity of their work in a way that is often unacceptable to their audience.

[askmike]

> > you need a license/approval before you can interview someone

> [citation needed]

So it was stated by a police officer in the video above (I'm assuming it was a real police encounter and not staged, and that the subtitles are correct as he didn't say it in English).

[bgee]

That scene is at ~12:00.

For the record those police officers said people can't accept interviews without approval, which is obviously BS.

[abj]

This comment is fascinating. It feels like it's written by GPT-3. It almost makes sense at first glance.

If you look at bgee's comment history, all the posts are about China.

> [citation needed] The police officer in the video said that in the video linked above. Mostly I'm curious what China's official position is.

[bgee]

Thank you. I consider it a badge of honor when I'm getting attacked simply because of the topics of discussion I choose to engage.

As a non-native English speaker, it also feels content to hear my writing is on par with the state-of-the-art NLP model.

> all the posts are about China

This is materially incorrect. This one is not [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815243