There's really very little paranoia. It's more like stoic cynicism. I don't waste my days looking over my shoulder thinking I'm being watched or wearing a tin-f

There's really very little paranoia. It's more like stoic cynicism. I don't waste my days looking over my shoulder thinking I'm being watched or wearing a tin-foil hat hiding from the Government. I'm just resigned to the fact that this is the way things are and eventually something innocuous I do is going to end up getting me questioned for a crime I was unaware I was complicit in. False equivalances? Hardly. China has a tough stance on censorship for control. The West really relies more on selective censorship and manipulation. They play the long game.