"We nicknamed her Bean"
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The article seems to support the US protecting the ideal of universal access, not because of any harm that will befall Americans. But China has a right to regulate it's own people, as does Iran, Russia and whomever else desires to. Censorship is a part of every country's history, even Western ones. This is not an old story in China at the very least, nor Russia, really. As with anything, there is little that the US can do in all of this (I actually laughed when I read "the only way to stop U.N. meddling is to wield a big stick") because they don't have jurisdiction and only pretend to have that kind of authority.
Also, Virus, there was a lot more to the fall of the USSR than any arms race with the US.
And it's not like the US hasn't had censorship, and there is certainly been "spying on [Americans in their] own homes."