I've spoken to people who were imprisoned there for decades, people who fled, and people who had to live through it. If you are saying he's deliberately lying, maybe. But otherwise, I don't know what to tell you, because what he is saying differs from many, many independent sources.
He made a simple statement: Censorship in the West is sometimes even worse than Mao’s China.
He didn’t say the USA is now more totalitarian than china.
He didn’t say he wants to live in China
He didn’t say propaganda in the USA is always worse than China.
I’m not sure why you’re arguing with his statement.
Go ahead and ask your many Chinese contacts - do they see some similar sprouts of marxist, PC, cancel-culture nonsense in post Obama America?