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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think the bigger issue is whether attempts to access this information (even through someone in a western country forwarding the information) forms a circumvention of the law and is thus prosecutable. Can a journalist in China be arrested or disciplined for receiving Amnesty International content via an email and incorporating it into a news report? Does the threat of that go beyond censoring their own media and become censorship of international media?
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The minute China attempts to pulls that crap during the Olympics, the rest of the world would be on it like a hot potato. This event will arguably be one of the largest international get-togethers in China's history, so arresting journalists at this time would be a public relations no-no and a HUGE hit on the international crediblity of that country; well moreso than it is now.