>France and United States, which always criticized China and other regimes due their policies on freedom of expression, are doing the same now<p>This is a terrible comparison. In China, if you publish something like Wikileaks, the government will order your webhost to take it down and then send goons out to take you away. In the US, one senator basically sent letters or publicly asked companies not to cooperate. No evidence of any threat to harm people.<p>Sure it is a curtailing of freedom of speech, much like prohibiting yelling fire in a theater is, but its not on the order of China.
The US is by no means less communist than China in this matter. You can tell me that Mr. Lieberman asked everyone politely to stop helping Wikileaks. But hey, go see a movie about mafias and gangsters and you get pretty much the same.<p>The reality is that democracy is just a cover up, the government can always see your personal emails, but you can't see what the government does. Call this freedom. But without transparency there is no freedom.