Good read!
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are also censored by Google/Youtube/Facebook and massive firewalls that do not let them get to outside of China web traffic.
It is very sad technology is being used this way, but the flip side is that places like steemit are popping up to combat this type of censorship.
I have never visited China so I only hear of these things second hand, I have studied North Korea in some detail though and it appears that China operates in a similar, but somewhat less paranoid and imbalanced way.
I remember watching a defector from the Soviet KGB explaining how the Russians had developed a longstanding program of taking visiting groups from countries like China and basically indoctrinating them as communist virus carriers to go back to their homeland and to take on roles that propagated the Soviet agenda. I don't know the exact history of this in regards to China, but I suspect it is all very much connected.
I am cranky but in general I am an optimist. While eating at a sushi bar I saw some negative news on China and the firewalls. I was casually speaking to my buddy next to me that 'I'm sure it isn't as bad as OUR media suggestions.' Then one of the guys preparing the sushi corrected me and told me he left China one year ago and it even worse than our media suggests. Crazy... but it was a moment of awarness. But I caution any of us from judging China. I disagree with BIG government, BUT what if (I'm sure it is the case) other countries hated us because of same sex marriages or our gun control. We are all different with different cultures and history. Regarding china even the Nazi like government is a culture... hehehe. See how I said don't judge but I compared them to Nazis. LOL But just because I disagree with China BIG GOVERNMENT doesn't mean it is my place.