"OTOH, banned movies, as you had mentioned, but freely available in P2P and VCD would not impact freedom in any effective sense, as you correctly noted. So, banned movies cannot be that important in the great schema of the journey, do you think?"
These are not particularly important. It does however point out a couple of problems. One is China's total disregard for intellectual properties, be they design, patents, copyright, etc., by forcing the Chinese people to cheat the intellectual property owner out of their rightful profits. Another problem that can be pointed out is China's disrespect of it’s people, banning Google for Christ’s sake, totally stupid, counterproductive, and just plain dumb. As you said every Chinese hacker knows workarounds, but, why should they need them.
You see, you tend to excuse China’s faults as trivial, while they are just symptomatic of greater and deeper problems with in that society, while you also tend to over glorify China’s good points. I guess ethnocentrism lives and breaths in HK as well as NZ and the US.
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