[helen___keller]

I half agree. The CCP already has a lot of tools to wield power over any company that doesn’t play ball. This law will become part of that tool kit, but not much different from the status quo in that regard.

The real change here is making it easier to enact soft censorship. If you want less people talking about a topic, right now the primary tool is outright censorship by the state. I think what the CCP wants is to let people post on a subject, but nobody sees your post, with a net effect that the subject falls out of public discourse without being outright censored.