Foreigners can think of this as "real-life SOPA", where not your speech, nor your online activities, but your moral values are being manipulated by what is being thought by others as "your own country".
The socialist system and policies shall not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the previous capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years.
This is clearly not happening. Socialistic ideology has crept up all around, and we have lost hope in restoring this city we once called home.
Even in Taiwan, which is still a de-facto country and not even a SAR, the media influence of the PRC is frightening. Just a few days ago, there were protests against a (pro-PRC) media monopoly:
chinese influence on majority shareholders of radio stations; this one in particular is closing next month or so: http://www.dbc.hk, one of the major shareholders was even quoted saying "CCP wants to shut you down" (in chinese).
http://www.scmp.com/article/1014470/politics-play-dbc-radios... (scmp is one of the most pro-beijing newspapers in hk, but I couldn't find any other article in english; yes I was surprised to find this there, no the quote isn't in the article.)
