Corporate Control of Things

You can't think of many successful movies not made by corporations anymore.  Tarantino is one of the only holdouts, but even he cannot escape the grasp of the money/power.

The Chinese simply recut his film and there's nothing anyone can or wants to do about it.  If you think this type of thing is going away, you're wrong.  The Chinese don't give a shit about artistic freedom or free speech or anything we take for granted.  Read one article about how China operates and you'll understand.  The Communists rule the country with a velvet glove.  They are nepotistic and utterly corrupt.  They'll stymie individual voices and steal intellectual property and resell it to line the pockets of the connected in the Party.  And we do business with them because of the money.  The people who run our country and the business world sell out the most basic and wonderful things about American culture for peanuts.  They sell it for second homes and a comfy retirement and cannibalize industries that they simply inherited and didn't even build.  Terrible.