“In the great debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.” So write Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods, law professors at Harvard and the University of Arizona, in the Atlantic.

And they seem to mind, as their next sentence indicates. “Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”