The that are transferred, processed, and resides at local datacenters. That is good news for datacenter operators and customers. What about other forms of online content that do not exist as company assets? In other words, what sorts of Internet freedom may currently be (or can possibly be) at stake in Hong Kong?

Samson Tam and Charles Mok, candidates of the LegCo Election 2012 IT Functional Constituency (ITFC), describe the current state of internet freedom in Hong Kong, the areas of freedoms that are possibly at stake, and what they have done in the past four years to defend Hong Kong's internet freedom.

Samson Tam: The key issue at stake is the which inadvertently affects "internet freedom" -- "freedom of speech" and "freedom of information" on the internet. , the Hong Kong government probably consulted the copyright owners only and came up with a bill that looked at the issue from the narrow intellectual property protection viewpoint. The proposal from [peer legislator] Ronny Tong Ka-wah -- exemption from criminal prosecution only if the "parroting" does not cause substantial financial losses to the copyright only -- is not acceptable either. The only way that it should be handled in Hong Kong is full exemption from criminal prosecution.

Charles Mok: [The Hong Kong] government has been seen as slowly but gradually and silently including provisions in various laws that are seen as curtailing internet freedom -- be it the copyright ordinance (Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2011) or COIAO (Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance). This is a worrying trend.