Many Chinese feel like this. When the NYT was banned for exposing the wealth of...I think Wen Jiabao's family, many Chinese shrugged it off as common knowledge (all the senior leaders are corrupt, Xi didn't send his daughter to Harvard on just his official salary after all); that the NYT was just rubbing it in their face. At no point did the argument against the NYT go to false or fake data. WSJ, Bloomberg, etc...have all been banned on stories that the Chinese never tried to seriously refute. It was more about face than fact.