I. Know.
So - does it make much difference that I can't see some political video without using a VPN when you can't watch some movie without the same?
To me it's the same thing - "censorship" exists in both cases - it is just focused on different things ("copyright" rather than "political ideology" and btw - I could watch a western movie here that is actually quite "political" also - so it isn't as simple as you might think).
First of all not using a VPN saves me $10/month, or way less if you use one of the main sponsor of this website. Not using a VPN lets me say stupid things on anyone and anything online without much consequences for my family or myself, not just "some political movies"**. Mind you I am not a big troll and I always try to have a mindset of leaving stuff on the net I wrote I would not be ashamed of. The tools and services I use let me get anything anywhere I want. I have lighter shoulders knowing 2 million civil servants are not payed to monitor everything written on the net (The US use google's robots for that for sure). If I find a flash drive in the street I would not be worry too much about any backdoor key logger waiting to spring into action as soon as I plug my free little drive.
Sure no political system is perfect. Far from it. I am glad I can abuse my unlimited fast internet connection here in the US now until TPTB decide otherwise.
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http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1291311/despicable-me-2-banned-mainland
