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>Beijing is deeply irked by constant criticism of its censorship policies, so its media organs work tirelessly to use charges of hypocrisy as a shield. The new Global Times editorial is more triumphalist than petty, however. Instead of sneering that countries with increasingly draconian hate speech laws have no business criticizing the Chinese government for muzzling what it considers to be hate speech, the Global Times applauds the rest of the world for slowly coming to see things China’s way. All that remains is bickering about what sort of online content should be illegal and how the speech control system should be administered.
>The next stage of China’s argument, previewed by the Global Times piece, will be touting China’s centrally administered speech control system as more logical and efficient than the unruly patchwork of regulatory agencies, private industry standards, unwritten rules, and boycott-happy pressure groups that control speech in the West.
>China will argue that it takes speech more seriously than a hypocritical West that clearly no longer believes in the ideal of free speech but is too embarrassed and politically conflicted to admit it. The Western world is filled with double standards about who gets to say what.