Re: Could be useful for us in the West?
As I was reading the article, my brain kept replacing China and Russia with UK, EU and USA and was still making sense.
The US have been projecting their laws and internet rules across the world for some time, as are the EU with GDPR and "right to be forgotten" extended world-wide so I'm not seeing any reall difference here other than "us and them", where "us" point at "them" as being wrong (where "us" and "them" can be read from either point of view)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
