A government that suppresses public uprisings without regard to their harmlessness or righteousness is justly condemned -- but it may at least, cynically, be described as hysterically rational. These regimes themselves are often an outcome of past mass-movements and so are understandably wary of any unexpected popular signs from among the people.
In the attempt to prevent curious citizens from accessing "obscene" sexually suggestive online materials there is no such proven history of danger to the regime. Nor is this form of content control likely to succeed as the basis of a future mechanism of popular control. We are witness here, in all likelihood, to an even more dangerous sign -- hysterical irrationality.
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