I have a lot of sympathy for China's rulers. They have a tough situation, and any course of action they take will make them look like idiots or bastards. I think they could definitely stand to be more open, and that it's probably just insecurity and FUD that's causing them to go for a censorship-laden, heavy-handed method of social control, but they're doing a decent job.

Maybe I'm biased because I swoon whenever I think of how easily China decided to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, while the Home of the Brave is still too terrified of miniscule or nonexistent risks.