In spite of increasing restrictions on freedom of speech in the United States, the country is still better off than China, a member of the Federal Communications Commission suggested over the weekend.

“We have had policies that are certainly questionable and I disagree with them, but China is in a whole different league in terms of its behavior and in terms of what it does in censoring its citizens, harming its citizens,” FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly told the Washington Examiner.