freedom of speech

I have heard that the Chinese government exercises stringent control over internet access in China. What the Chinese government does not want the people to know, it will do whatever is necessary to remove such information promptly. Of course, this is just hearsay; I am not sure how true it is. As a Singaporean, I don't think I have much freedom of speech. However, because the government here does not exercise control over what is transmitted via the internet, so at least I could still vent my unhappiness or frustration(if I want to) about certain government policies, etc through my blog or through other social media.

I don't think so about your opinion. In fact, the president of philippines was welcomed by China government. Although the issue of Nanhai is a big divergence between two countries. Cooperation is still advocated by China government,aslo including Philippines's. In China, I saw many chinese people express indignant about Philippine government's attitude in Nanhai, but government is very quiet. So I think there is misunderstand for your. As a chinese, I think we have freedom of speech in all media, especially internet.

As a Chinese, you should understand how the government defines "freedom of speech". Many officials treat "freedom of speech" as a threat to their rules, especially to their purposes to embezzle public funds and accept bribery. The Chinese medias are totally controlled by the government and could not act as social conscience. Thanks to God, the rise of Internet offers citizens an opportunity to express their views relatively freely. The governments know that they could not totally control this new media, so they spend a lot of money in "guiding" the network public opinions in order to make it really like the opinions of most people. I feel sorry that so much money has been wasted which could have been used in other fields such as education and health care. Luckily we could still express our views freely in mylot, so let's cherish such freedom!

Doesn't China have government ordained internet filtering? Are there not also laws on how one can't freely criticize the Chinese government? And finally, doesn't China ban movies and music it deems unfit for its citizens? That is not freedom of speech. That is controlled speech and press. If there was real freedom of speech, the Chinese government would not be filtering and banning things. People could go where they wanted to on the internet and they could say what they wanted to about the government without fear of repercussion from the government. China has become more free in recent decades but it has a way to go yet.

China is not a democratic country. Well it's really hard to live a life like that. It's like close to a martial law. The chinese government is doing everything to shut it's people up. I know that ever since. Specially about the J-10 crash a couple of years ago. A person uploaded a photo of the wreckage but the government covers it up and no news was published about that crash.

The Wumaodang you mentioned, I think I found one. The author of the eighth remark. I am so astounded. This kind people do exists,what a miracle. "especially internet"? Can you access YouTube,Can you sign in on Facebook,Can you open twitter's front page?

It will be a joke if we can have a freedom of speach. The government built the Great Fire Wall which block many websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and so on. If you have a Weibo account, you will see many latest news. And you will find more truth of about society. And as you can imagine, many posts are deleted, and even the Weibo account will be deleted, too. I remember several days ago I saw a post about the leaking oil news from CCTV. However, soon this news was cut and the host Wei Jing was in a shock. But soon she stayed calm and spoke the next news. Isn't it amusing? As to the issue you are talking about, do you know that our government will invest 50 billions of dollars to Phillipines. It just doesn't make a sense! I love China

Blame internet censorship. Freedom is a scarcity.

Yes, I have freedom of speech. As I was born in the Netherlands, where freedom of speech is a great issue. It's still one of the best countries to live, because many of so called freedom movements and topis have been translated into bills. But don't get me wrong, freedom of speech doesn't mean, that all you say will be accepted as the truth by other people. Better say, people must be able to share opinions and respect them.

we have freedom of speach in our country. everyone can express their opinion out loud and dont have any consequence about it. in china people cant do it as every aspect of their real or internet life is critisized.