This fits with Mencius Moldbug's idea of rule by the smart:<p>"Yet, even within the ballpark of restricted democracy, racial qualification is an incredibly crude measure. A much better result would be achieved, for instance, by psychometric qualification. If your IQ is less than 120, you have to go through life with the dunce-cap of a nonvoter. On the other hand, you get to go through life with a government elected by those whose IQ is over 120. Even better, the result of the test could be undisclosed - so you have no idea whether or not your vote matters. You feel no humiliation if it doesn't; you receive no advantage if it does."<p>This is essentially how China is run:  you take a standardized test when you're eighteen or so, and that test determines your life.  If you do well, you have power, and if you do poorly, you don't.  By the same token, if you're smart enough to download and set up Tor, you can access to controversial information.  If you can't set up Tor, you can't.  It's an IQ test.<p>The thinking here is one I have met in peopel from the East, and it goes like this.  A little learning is a dangerous thing.  You can't have innocent fools upset with the goverment because you just can't have a revolution every thirty years.  It's a mess, and you never get ahead as a country.<p>Not my opinion, but if you ever found the rule of the nerds appealing, (I for one am a nerd and sort of do), now you know: that's China.