Reason for restricting freedom of speech In China, the reason for restricting freedom of speech is to protect their current political regime. The size of China is over 9700 km, and the population is over 14 trillion. It makes China quite hard to manage because of its land being too wide and have overpopulation. So, if anything would happened and stir up the emotion of the people, if they should take any action, it would be a disaster for the Government of China and it would be very hard to satisfy