The draconian internet laws of China and Myanmar leave virtually no room for free thought among their populations. Not only is the the entire internet censored by these governments, but such restrictions lead to the silencing and arrests of journalists and activists. Neither of these countries can claim to support freedom until they creat free and hones speech forums.

While it's fine to criticize countries like China, reports like this should not distract from how Western countries impose their own censorship regimes. The US military has used artificial intelligence to identify and scrub online speech it doesn't like for years, most notably during COVID and the 2020 election. This is still going on in both Europe and the US.