Opinion | Chinese protesters want ‘cinema freedom.’ Hollywood should help them.

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After almost three years of increasingly draconian coronavirus lockdowns, Chinese citizens have plenty of things to protest. The QR code system that determines where they can go is dystopian. Welding people inside apartments is barbarous behavior, as is blaming those who burned to death in a fire for being “too weak” to save themselves.

But the chants from crowds calling for “cinema freedom” should spark as much reflection from Hollywood filmmakers and executives as from Chinese leaders.

Source: Opinion | China needs the ‘Avatar’ sequel. Hollywood should stand up to censors. – The Washington Post