Hong Kong Cancels Screening of The Dark Knight as Beijing Continues Crackdown
, long before most people suspected the Chinese Communist Party would violate the “one country, two systems,” policy that had been in place for decades. Beijing pushed through a so-called “national security law” allowing anyone in Hong Kong to be extradited to the mainland and the rest is history, as far as liberal democracy is concerned for Hong Kongers.announcing that censors would start prohibiting any movie that supposedly threatened “national security.
Once a city known for some of the most creative and dynamic movies in the world, Hong Kong now has to live with movie censorship like the rest of mainland China. And while tech savvy people can certainly get around censorship in creative ways in the privacy of their own home, the days of an outdoor movie screening for something like
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