Hacking into servers so clumsily that you get caught? Throwing up filters? Choking off information? Hobbling search engines so that people get a censored version of reality?

This is idiotic. China is fighting the Internet. And like everyone else who fights the Internet, China will lose. […]

The Internet is bigger than any one country—even a country as big as China. Calling out China as someone who “doesn’t get it” is a way of putting the rest of the world on notice.

Newsweek, Daniel Lyons