The Chinese do not tend to react inn the way that editorial writers of the WSJ do.
Perhaps China should restrict the Internet less, but the WSJ is not any sort of expert on what the Chinese will tolerate from their government.
The unspoken arrangement between the Chinese and their leaders is that in return for keeping the economy growing and improving the lot of the average citizen, the people will generally agree to tolerate government intrusions of the sort that China employs. Not all Chinese, but most, adhere to this.
It is not an attitude unknown to this country, as we see from sir's insistence on blind obedience without protest to anything Officer Friendly orders, with the realization that Officer Friendly has the right to inflict any immediate punishment or humiliation that comes to mind with impunity. That is pretty much the attitude taken by most Chinese, based on what my Taiwanese friend, who is married to a mainlander, tells me.
The Chinese have a custom of collectivism that extends many centuries back before Mao, Chaing or even Sun Yat-Sen.
