I don't get what your point is - do they need a greater and nobler political purpose other than giving access to whatever people want?
They are misrepresenting themselves.
Further, if they really had free speech and helping suppressed peoples in mind, they would remove most of their infringing content and provide a platform that can't be attacked on grounds of copyright infringement.
Did you wonder why people from Syria and North Korea might actually want to visit that website?
I found the figure mentioned of 100 visitors from North Korea daily pretty amazing to be honest. I checked my own site stats and though there are visitors from 183 countries not one is from North Korea.
Pirate bay is not just movies. You can download plenty of books from it for free, university textbooks, philosophy, whatever.
They are misrepresenting themselves.
Further, if they really had free speech and helping suppressed peoples in mind, they would remove most of their infringing content and provide a platform that can't be attacked on grounds of copyright infringement.