The political classes in all western nations are increasingly isolated from the rest of their respective countries and becoming more and more incompetent. They exist in a mono-culture where they much more closely relate to one another on a international level rather then their own people. They don't know what it is like to live as a normal productive individual, nor do they care since they believe that tax payers are beneath themselves; Both in terms of education and upbringing.

They can't communicate, they can't debate. They rely on consultants to make decisions. They have all identical educations and backgrounds and no real world experience. They are extremely effective at navigating party politics and government bureaucracies, but know almost nothing outside of that.

They are a professional class with no professional standards nor any professional organization providing any sort of regulation or licensing or training.

So they are unable to listen to people, addressing concerns, and or make concessions. They believe that they are better then normal people so there is no point even if they could be effective politicians, which they can't. Their logic is that they are the experts, they know better, and you shouldn't question them anymore then you question your dentist when he tells you to floss your teeth.

The trouble is they are not better and they know nothing. Everything they do is guided by consultants and informed through executive summaries on power point presentations.

They don't want to get bogged down in details and want to stick to grand strategies and long term plans, which is nice except for the fact that the world is nothing but details. All the details matter all the time. Which means that all grand strategies and 5-years plans are misinformed and doomed to failure before they even begin.

If you need proof of this just look at the embarrassing attempts by western politicians to implement high speed rails. Especially in English speaking countries.

So the thing they seek more then anything else is to avoid shame, embarrassment, and anybody challenging their authority.

They can't challenge back, they can't explain anything, they can't debate, and they can't change minds or wind hearts.

So the second best thing they can do is just silence anybody that publicly denounces, protests, or challenges them in any meaningful way.

And that is what internet censorship is really about.

What they want is the ability to label huge swaths of their own population as "extremists" and get them to shut up. Cancel them, humiliate them, punish them, get them fired, implement social credit score, get all major internet corporations working to keep them from sharing ideas or criticisms on the internet.