I live in a Socialist, or to most 'westerners', Communist country, and I rarely have a problem accessing international news websites. There has been times in the past, when particularly negative comments were made about the Vietnamese government, the page became unavailable.

You are naive if you think that censorship doesn't happen in Western Countries. Or maybe the spin on it is 'under-reported'.

China does have internal problems with civil unrest, mostly concerning the cost of living and economic inequality. These are global problems.

Originally posted by deessell
You are naive if you think that censorship doesn't happen in Western Countries. Or maybe the spin on it is 'under-reported'.

Of course this happens in the west. How many stories break! and then get swept under the rug, not talked about or just flat out killed.

As for China having problems, sure. It's a big, relatively modern society (in the cities) and has all, and probably then some, of the problems that most Americans or European city dwellers have.

I'm still hopeful that this is a good move forward, that opening foreign media sources will be a positive thing for the people of China.

Monkey

Could be a good sign, I hope it is.

Freedom can behave like a fire at times, its not the 'at rest' state of fuel/oxygen/heat, so it takes working on, but once it gets going it can jump its intended fire pit and set ablaze unitended areas.

I hope this is one of those times.

There are 2 teams forming across the globe, one of fear/tyranny/hate, and the other of hope/liberty/love. Even in communist countries the self evident truths of freedom become apearent to its citizens at times when the haze lifts!

Long live liberty!