And rms would be the first to agree with you that there are more important freedoms:

"I hesitate to exaggerate the importance of this little puddle of freedom, because the more well-known and conventional areas of working for freedom and a better society are tremendously important. I wouldn't say free software is as important as they are."

And he explains why he speaks about Free Software:

"It's the responsibility that I undertook, because it dropped in my lap and I saw a way I could do something about it. But, for example, to end police brutality, to end the war on drugs, to end the kinds of racism we still have, to help everyone have a comfortable life, to protect the rights of people who do abortions, to protect us from theocracy, these are tremendously important issues, far more important than what I do. I just wish I knew how to do something about them."

"I wish I knew how to make a major difference on those bigger issues, because I would be tremendously proud if I could, but they're very hard and lots of people who are probably better than I am have been working on them and have gotten only so far," he says. "But as I see it, while other people were defending against these big visible threats, I saw another threat that was unguarded. And so I went to defend against that threat. It may not be as big a threat, but I was the only one there."

Like any activist, he speaks of what he knows. That doesn't mean he considers the rest unimportant.

Source: http://sisudoc.org/markup_samples.sisu_fn/free_as_in_freedom...

Lucky that the Chinese are capable of concern for more than one thing at once.

You might enjoy pondering a moment on the connection between open source software and censorship, for example in an email client that encrypts sensitive messages.