They put themselves in this position of deciding to arbitrarily delete things such that this PR would even be possible.

If they weren't in the business of policing the network this way, the deletions would only be in response to a court order - which do happen. Then they would be in the PR favor by deciding to ignore "another country's" court order, and "exiting that market" if it was a better business decision.

This is one of the grand luxuries of international business, and Facebook is paying for it - in this case - instead of enjoying the privilege.

Someone should tell them PM to change her statement to "Our censorship laws are about to change"