Personal opinion: if people who live in China (a country with a much longer and clearer history of overt censorship) still talk about Winnie-the-Pooh, I doubt this change will really have the impact the administration hopes for.
What they hope to do is limit free speech and political criticism in the United States. They're starting with the groups the law gives them easiest access to, and they're hoping to expand that group to include native citizens in the near future (see the actions on birthright citizenship.)
It's hard to argue that political speech has been a success in China, and we're going to end up a lot like China if we don't fight this with everything we have.
Oh, no doubt. The only observation I'm making is that while the old adage was speaking specifically of USENET, it is often true of online comms in general: the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
If a government with nearly no backstops against public message-shaping has as much trouble as China does keeping criticism out, imagine the trouble one where many pieces of the system, structural and individual, will actively oppose erosion of the First Amendment (the real "criticism of the government" kind, not the hand-wavey "It should be a crime to ban me from Facebook" kind) will experience.
> What they hope to do is limit free speech and political criticism in the United States.
Not the US. Israel. The point is to prevent people from criticizing israel and israel's genocide. Our politicians don't care if foreigners criticize the US. Our politicians really really care about people criticizing Israel for some strange reason.
