In my eye, it's not special. The chinese government just want to "protect" chinese people from bad influences of Internet, similar as the parent of a family use a child-protection software to protect their children from accessing harmful internet contents.

This metaphor explains the behaviour of the chinese government and its handling of ordinary chinese people.

Is that what you predicted?


But what I find somehow a irony is the words in the article:

"The American House of Representatives called a hearing after the Yahoo incident. “These companies tell us they’re going to change China," one congressman complained, "but instead, China changes them.” "