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I wonder if they have an "Application Process" for who is allowed to go offline. Their biggest problem has been drones straying into places they shouldn't. Airport locations can be stored offline but emergency FAA drone "blackouts" are relayed online. What happens when someone uses this to document a protest in DJI's native China. Hmm?

Edit: To make it clear, I've always had a love-hate relationship with this form of DRM.

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Protests in china are regulated by the government similar to other protests in USA where you usually notify local governments about the land you are on and have to ask for approval in some manner. If protests are approved, then they can be held which is what happens in China.

Thus documenting a protest in China that is legal would not be censored on Chinese media, however documenting an illegal protest and then broadcasting it on Chinese media is pretty risky as the government can crackdown on it much easier.

Moreover, Chinese government can censor footage about protests if it goes against their wishes so in the end it doesn't really matter.

Does the Chinese government often approve such protests? What would they allow their citizens to protest?

I don't think there's really approval for protests, but "The majority of protests in China concern local grievances, such as the corruption of county- or township-level government or Communist Party officials, exploitation by employers, excessive taxation, and so on. Protests targeting specific, local grievances, and where citizens propose actionable remedies, are more likely to succeed than alternative forms of protests."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China

Those protests are cracked down on, im talking about these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_China_anti-Japanese_demon...

These are usually broadcasted openly on the Chinese internet and allowed by the Chinese government. Like I'm of Chinese ethnicity and I occasionally see Chinese news, these are the only protests put on Chinese State news that you can see because it forwards Chinese govt. agenda.

EDIT: Note that a BBC News article about it says that "The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says the outbreak of protests was almost certainly sanctioned by the Chinese authorities, as they were well policed."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19312226

If there is police allowed around a protest in China, it usually is legal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_China_anti-Japanese_demon...

Chinese government often uses demonstrations that prove their point or to forward their political agenda

> similar to other protests in USA where you usually notify local governments about the land you are on and have to ask for approval in some manner. If protests are approved, then they can be held which is what happens in China

EDIT: Yeah, my apologies, you're probably not a bot, I'm being paranoid. That said, your argument might as well come from one if you're trying to suggest that the way China handles protests is approximately equivalent to the US.

PRIOR: You're a China bot. Anonymous, newish account, comment history is a mix of tech industry opinion (as cover) mixed with "America is just like China" soft-propaganda on topics like Tibet and public protest.

And China doesn't approve protest requests. But you know this.

That's a bit harsh. Do not attribute to malice what can be explained by naivety or stupidity.

I didn't downvote you because thats your opinion, other people downvoted u.

As well, I'm pretty sure I'm not a bot, maybe you can give me a recaptcha test to test me and I never said protests are treated the same in USA. Does the USA censor their protests on the media? Please answer me there as I put that on my post and learn to read. I'm angry because this is stupid.

Also I hate the Chinese Communist Party and don't want China under a communist one-party dictatorship. I have not said anything about Tibet, that was you. If I was a Chinese bot I would have just lost my job.

They also approve of protests requests that forward their political agenda:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_China_anti-Japanese_demon...

See above, this was broadcasted on the Chinese interwebs and on Chinese State news where I saw it, if it wasn't allowed, it would have been stopped and cracked down on.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19312226

If there is police allowed around a protest in China, it usually is legal

Another edit: Dont pretend you know more about China than I do, i am prepared to protest the Chinese govt on Chinese streets and light myself on fire for Chinese democracy, until you can do the same you have no skin in the game.

In the US, protests can only be regulated as to time, place, and manner, not content.

In the PRC, I can only imagine content is the most heavily regulated aspect.

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