The media, or the owners of the media company, consider some topics to be outright heresy.Yeah, of course there should be some controls. No country on earth, not even the Liberal western countries have no controls whatsoever on the Internet not the even the US/EUROPE. There are still some Controls on some things government there considers innaprioriate or not acceptable to the country. So yes of course there are some controls, but that doesn't means you should just close up your country's entire population from access to Internet worldwide. That's just stupid. As Deng(someone I really admire not just for his courage and zeal to change his country but even more so for not being too power hungry at all cost unlike some of his predecessors ) said: "“A country is just like a house, it has windows and gates. If you close the window, you get no fresh air, and also no flies. But if you open the window fresh air comes in and also some flies.”
This sums up things very well. Just because opening your window for fresh air and better living conditions might attract some flies in the house doesn't means you will live your whole life with your windows always closed. Lol. You open them and then try and mitigate the flies by putting some controls and filters in the windows to limit flies coming in. That should be obvious. Lol
You can look at Caixin or SCMP to see what I mean (pro privatization, anti-state business, pro-West aka pro capital).
This is because privately owned media moguls seek to appropriate more of the economy into their own hands.
This also goes for the Internet companies, which were developed in the neoliberal area and explicitly based on profits and shareholder control.
Until China is strong enough to topple this web by offering an alternative, quiet suppression is all they can do. Hell, even Chinese internet companies are based on the neoliberal model. Just look at Tiktok: there is no structural difference between it and say Google.