"How critical is good information about the world?" Of course it is critical but the access to good information is not entirely dependent on whether there is c

"How critical is good information about the world?" Of course it is critical but the access to good information is not entirely dependent on whether there is censorship: For long form reporting a lot is dependent on budget resources. When newspapers here lose revenue they inevitably cut back on investigative reporting and resort to more editorialization. In China newspapers may have fared slightly better on the revenue side so far (https://www.statista.com/statistics/498028/newspaper-publishing-revenue-advertising-circulation-china/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/498028/newspaper-publish...) but the future is uncertain. Outbound tourism has been steadily growing, reaching 126 million trips in 2016. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/tourism/2016statistics/outbound.htm https://www.travelchinaguide.com/tourism/2016statistics/outb... There is a large Chinese diaspora connected through social networking. There are also websites such as Zhihu that is a real force in dispersal of knowledge but is barely discussed here on HN due to the language barrier. Weibo (which is like Twitter), where a celebrity could generate millions of comments, gets more attention from the general public and the government. But if you are after good information Zhihu often provides surprisingly in-depth answers.