These governments only want institutions to host web services. Their rules are openly hostile to individuals. One obvious benefit is much tighter control, having a few companies with large, registered sites, gives the government control.
It is also pretty clear that the public at large does not care. Most people are completely unaffected and rarely venture outside of the large, regulated platforms.
It's more about "accepting and publishing arbitrary content".
But, in practice, how hard is it to host a website anonymously? Or off-shore?