[themacguffinman]

The risk of government intervention (read: penalties for everyone involved) is what drives self-censorship. There's no meaningful distinction between the two.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

> read: penalties for everyone involved

Read: being denied an exit visa, arbitrary detention, torture, being disappeared, being executed.

These are all things that the Chinese government does as a matter of course.

For instance, this Australian woman spent 3 years in detention and was tortured for releasing a government report a few minutes early:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/17/like-...