Colin, Cambridge
In China, they have Chinese radios, Chinese TVs - why must they switched on BBC Chinese,or Amnesty or the Falung gong? Surely you have not switched on Chinese CCTV9 have you? I think it is time, other countries set up news channels in the West and let you have the same as done 2us.

Lim, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

LLoyd, London,
Have u been to China? At least Mr. George Madden, London had been there and he vouched for the people living there. They are free to move about, do things within the law and live comfortably just like any other democratic country. You have laws too. Can you break the law?
060808

Lim, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

everyone in China know that the stuffs from Xinhua agency are half rabbish. now the web firewall lifted, and they know that all media agency are rubbish producer, but to produce another kind of rubbish

reallysad, beijing, china

George Madden

Everyday domestic life might not feel like communism, but that is just consumer trivia on the surface. You cannot open BBC Chinese. You cannot open Amnesty. You cannot open Felin Gong. You can open sites in press centre but that is not for ordinary Chinese. The regime watches you!

Colin, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gerge Madden

Everyday domestic life might not feel like communism, but that is just consumer trivia on the surface. You cannot open BBC Chinese. You cannot open Amnesty. You cannot open Felin Gong. You can now open sites in press centre but that is not for ordinary Chinese. The regime censors you

Colin, Cambridge, United Kingdom

George Madden, I do not believe you! If your are or were in China it is clear you have not travelled outside a large city. How can the authorities in China lift the ban on some web sites if there is no ban and how can people be snet to labour camps if there are no labour camps?

LLoyd, London,

"send people to labour camps" is really big joke.

really surprised by news like that.
When i play joke with my friend, i say: behave yourself, or you will be sent to labour camps. haha...

Falungong always send rubbish fax ,wasting much paper. Paper is expensive.no extra money for it

duan, Ningbo, China

Great work for this great beginning, brought about by a media we all take for granted. Please keep freedom of speech the right of every human. I'm so glad China have allowed this too. Shows they are a reasonable good people.

Liz, London, England

Gee. China has a totalitarian regime that does not have to answer to any electorate. What do people expect? What was the IOC thinking when they awarded the game to Beijing?

Bruce Northwood, Washington, D.C., USA

The Chinese Government need to uderstand that the world's press have arrived and do not take kindly to being messed about. All of these banned sites are freely available just across the water in democratic Taiwan and everywhere else.

Colin, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Can we not ban all the Porn sites in this country also.. plus anything that is deemed culturally barren such as PerezHilton and all the crap like that.. I am sure this country would be a hell of a lot better with restrictions on the availability of poisonous rubbish...

jim, london, uk

I've been in China now for almost a month and I quickly came to the conclusion that the sites that were 'blocked' are just a myth.

And 'labour camps'? Is that a comment of ignorance? The people of the China I am in are perhaps the most free in the world.

I can't believe they call it communism!

George Madden, London, United Kingdom

It's shocking the cencorship the Chinese people have to endure on the internet!

Blocking information on the Tiananmen crackdown on student demonstrators. Sounds like the leaders of that country are trying to rewrite history to fit there agenda.

I cant belive they send people to labour camps!

Andrew Towell, Hartlepool, England, UK