[joe_the_user]

Yes, it's dishonest for them to describe China's censorship regime as "regulation". Like any dictatorial regime, China's censorship is fundamentally "lawless" in the sense that there's no codified statement of what can and can't be said. Rather China maintains a constant threat that saying anything critical of the regime may result in sanctions, often retroactively.

And if anyone references the US, the NSA's surveillance regime has the same lawless quality despite the fig leaf of (secret) courts. We can at least be happy the US doesn't have all the overt repressive mechanism of China - yet.