Remember, if a govt can determine what is truthful (POFMA), it's not a surprise that it can also determine what is harmful.
Totalitarian regimes, once their economy is floundering (legitimacy to rule is thrown in doubt), will always attempt to increase social-informational control like this. China already has it with the Great Firewall, so it stirs shit in the South China Sea, the Middle East and Ukraine, which has the same effect.