Xi Jinping clearly doesn't know how ironic and absurd this statement he made at a Beijing internet conference is.
Xi said it was crucial his nation’s 670 million internet users enjoyed online “freedom”, despite widespread censorship and the blocking of many foreign internet services including Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and Instagram.
“As in the real world, freedom and order are both necessary in cyberspace,” Xi told the opening of the so-called world internet conference, taking place over three days in Wuzhen, a town in eastern China.
“Freedom is what order is meant for, and order is the guarantee of freedom. We should respect internet users’ rights to exchange ideas and express their minds and we should also build good order in cyberspace in accordance with [the] law as it will help protect the legitimate rights and interests of all internet users.”
Two days earlier Pu Zhiqiang a fierce advocate for free speech was put on trial charged with picking quarrels, provoking trouble and inciting ethnic hatred for 7 tweets he posted between 2011 and 2014 on Weibo China's Twitter.
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