In a nutshell, the censorship (when it's real) is mostly to counter the massive differential in media and propaganda power between the West and China. The human rights violations are a drop in the bucket compared to what the West is guilty of, and the fact that they don't seem that way is also a result of the massive differential in media power.

https://youtu.be/-bWSwK-m8A0

I'll add this one as a rebuttal to the Great Firewall. Because the firewall is always one. But feel free to point out any soecific issues.

Interestingly, the prediction made in the post-production comment at the end of the video is coming true a lot faster than he predicted.