Xi Jinping has undisputed total control over China's Technocracy, and he is finishing the transformation by assuming direct and dictatorial power over the state's media. Detractors will have their 'social credit score' reduced immediately by 200 points.
The Chinese are very clever to weaponize capital in order to achieve devious ends. In this case, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) funds selected academic institutions or projects in order to coerce them into self-censorship according to Chinese policies. Congress should block such funding.
When your personal data turns bad, whether real or imagined, China will basically ex-communicate you from the good life, and they have already done this to tens of millions of detractors. This is as effective as Tiananmen Square slaughter, but was implemented slowly so people never had a clue what was happening to them. Now, they are trapped, shunned, penalized and in some cases, destitute.
As a Technocracy pursuing a totally engineered world, China has massively censored its internal Internet. Now it is looking beyond its borders to censor the rest of the world. This is draconian and dangerous, but few in the West have correctly pegged China's intentions or strategies.
As a Technocracy, Chinese Technocrats want no competition for societal influence, especially churches and Christianity, which they believe is fantasy and myth. China's draconian surveillance system will make for easy management of this new policy.
It is a good first step to chop funding of the United Nations, but there is still no recognition of its draconian doctrine of Agenda21/Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Still, this opens the window for local activists to rid their communities of UN dogma and policies.
Technocracy as social engineering will micro-manage everything and everyone within its society, insisting upon conformity and allegiance. China is run mostly by Technocracy scientists and engineers and has demonstrated these traits for at least 20 years now.
China is leading the world in creating a Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, as it applies state-of-the-art technology to manipulate its citizens. By definition, Technocracy is the science of social engineering.
If, as and when Facebook-like tech giants decide to collude with government to impose their worldview on their constituents, it will be game over for all other forms of government, worldwide. In the case of Mark Zuckerberg, remember that he has highly praised China's Technocratic model of government, which is highly censored, repressive and manipulative. How could he not impose his beliefs on Facebook America?
Selective censorship by media giants is increasing at an alarming speed: if they don't like your politics or morality, they simply push the 'eject' button and you disappear. Technocrats have no ethical boundaries in censorship because they believe so strongly that they are right and everyone else is wrong.