https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/media-censorship-china

I can confirm this due to the consults of many chinese users related to the Great Firewall, in a international forum. Although there is also censorship in the Western media, with a strong component of journalistic manipulation, here a journalist is fired by far if he does not report what is indicated by the interests of political officials in the direction. In China they are directly imprisoned. It is exactly the difference that I was referring to in my post, the difference of maintaining ignorance through media manipulation to guide us to the interests of the elite, and another of directly imposing iron control over personal freedoms with serious consequences for noncompliance. Both things are reprehensible and must be fought against, but the second is worse, especially if a country wants to call itself communist, where, however, it is only an elite that rules and without real sovereignty of the people, only typical of savage capitalism, but not in communism. In our society democracy is just a pretty poor label, just as Chinese communism is a similar label for the public.