CNN Sciutto: Chinese Protestors Taking Their Masks off Is an ‘Act of Courage in This Country’

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SCIUTTO: “This is a government that has built a security apparatus over two decades precisely to control this kind of thing. But let's look at the scale of this, right? The protests happened in China. It's a country of more than a billion and a half people. But those are local. This is national. And it is affecting China's biggest most powerful cities. Of course, the capital, Beijing, Shanghai, business center, Guangzhou in the south, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu. These are cities of tens of millions of people in many cases. When you look at the protests, they're not small and isolated. They are often involving hundreds of people out in public places, as Selina mentioned, with their masks off, allows them to be easily identified. And that is an act of courage in this country, because this is a country that tracks every act of dissent. It knows who you are, and it punishes those people.”