I resonate and agree with 99% of what you wrote... Freedom of speech AND THE RIGHT TO ACCESS INFORMATION is more than ever jeopardized by a fraction of elitists that no longer cares for conveying the dirt and the blood in their hands... The one part I don't agree with you is when you state that this is the world of China. Despite the Chinese government openly admits to limit it's population freedom this is far from ring a Chinese branded behavior. Both the US and UK at the lead (Germany, France, Russia,etc) have at least two centuries behaving this way, China has joined the US/UK way of doing things since the 1970s... what happened earlier is that main stream media covered with a curtain of lies, smoke walls, fake news as mislead information campaigns, the outrageous behavior of the one who make decisions against their own fellow citizens...
But hey! It's up to us now to allow them to blow the candle of hope Julian Assange lighted for us all.
Best regards.
Well said Joel, yes China is only restricting their own people's freedom of speech, so what I was implying is that the planet is going the way of China, who are the biggest suppressors of free speech at home. And in time it looks like China are gradually imposing their style of restriction on the world, or the world will adopt the style of China - with social credit score and mass surveillance. So if you say or do anything against the dictatorship, you are hit with sanctions by a lowered social credit score.
Best wishes