The main issue is Section 230 which gave a special space to platforms, making them different from publishers. Section 230 was instrumental in killing newspapers.

China was a lot smarter: it makes all platforms publishers accountable for content, especially user-generated content, and the directives are updated daily. If they fail to follow these directives, the Party can take away their business license.

Many print journalists lost their jobs in the US, but in China, Tencent, Sina and Sina Weibo hired them in order to monitor content. Another example of where China was smarter...