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How do you make technology companies stop censorship in countries like China? there should be some mechanism. Because it is free market economy from where they operate.

When free and democratic governments themselves sign treaties and trade in hundreds of billions of dollars with repressive regimes, is there any hope?

It's a daunting task admittedly. Even one person boycotting or refusing to use a company's services whose ethics were in complete discord with their own (such as Google in this post, but there are many, many others) is one person more. But you've raise a good point in general, and touched upon a very real reason why so many people don't get as actively involved with Human Rights as they inherently feel that they should be: What kind of difference can one person possibly make?

Siddhartha-The Buddha was one person.
Mahatman Gandhi was one person.
Nelson Mandela is one person.

People have asked me in earnest if I really think I can make a difference with this, and of course I am in no league with the aforementioned above, but is that ever any reason not to do something? I suppose I see it like a forest. One tree does not a forest make, but collectively, a thicket you shall have. If each individual did something - anything - together we could change the world.

And yes, there is always hope.

As long as there's life, there's hope.