As the world moves more and more to an Orwellian-dystopia things like this don’t surprise me much. In the states Google and Facebook do the same thing: data and monetizing it for better ads in a capitalistic sense vs. using it to suppress dissent and bolster government power when the PBOC does it.

I am free to say vile things about political leaders (so long as I don’t flat out call for anyone’s harm) here in the west which is nice. I feel bad for my fellow nerds in mainland China that don’t have as much access to the same information and opportunities that a largely free internet affords. I hope that one day we will see a liberalizing of China in this regard.