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I think most governments who roll out censorship infrastructure don't really care about whatever they're actually censoring, they have some juicy target that will come along later like a political rival they miscategorize. To cut them off. They're building the toolbox they don't care about the excuse.
So yeah pirate sites give them an excellent reason to say oh we need better tools, but they don't care about piracy, not really