A point which has not been made yet is that the CCP's internet governance is denying its people full access to the internet and outside news sources, and in doing so are actively denying people of news and information, and are actively engaging in disinforming and misinforming the majority of its population who cannot or do not have the knowledge to break through the Great Firewall. Hence there is an active policy to keep people not educated or in the dark about a whole range of issues or historical facts.
These comparisons with NSA are also incredibly hypocritical as ,say, in the US the internet is not censored to the insane level of China, and people can acces any outside news source they desire. If a Snowden happened in China, rest assured the 2million+ army was on the case to make sure such an affair would not be known to the average Chinese. In the US it could be reported anywhere and every US citizen is free to inform himself.
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