@Fire-Fist:
so its okay for US to suppress and not for china? What i was saying was that US has no moral right now to accuse china after she has done almost everything to silence wikileaks.
From the US perspective, the US is being more moral than China because it's willing to allow a tradeoff of more freedom at the expense of a more effective government. Most of the things Americans want these days violate the core founding principles of the country, which highlights the limitations of the US model.
Illegal immigration, for example. The "Reconquista" going on in the Four Corners is aided by the children of illegals automatically being American citizens once they're born in the US. The easy way to halt the Reconquista is to deny government services to non-US citizens, and to simply deny American citizenship to the children of illegals. This, of course, violates the 14th Amendment, and the broad implications of making an exception for illegal aliens allows for exploitation. Rather than legalize that abuse, the issue is kept in rhetorical limbo, because in a politician's eyes, preserving this freedom is of greater value than the erosion of White Anglo culture in the Four Corners.
Another argument I've heard is gay marriage is merely a gateway issue to buffer the far more fearsome issue of polygamy. A lot of Americans have no problem with gay marriage, but even atheists oppose polygamy, and much of the argumentation in support of gay marriage can be used to justify the legality of polygamy.
China, and much of the rest of the world, is a lot more utilitarian in its approach to government and more pragmatic in that it doesn't value natural rights as strongly. A peasent in rural China would much rather prefer to be fed every night than have the right to criticize the government for not providing a nightly meal.
Even though the US can crack down on free speech excess, as long as it doesn't go to China's low, it can claim some moral superiority for these reasons.