Duh.. BBC is Banned. So this is what I said.

Someone wrote to me and pointed out that they could not read the interview because BBC is banned in China and that’s where they are. So rather than insult their intelligence like the guy from Hants in the UK

I will just post it up here also.
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The problem is not that Google is censoring its search service, it is that China doesn’t have free speech.

But I’m always supportive of kicking up a fuss about American companies. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are part of the "Great Firewall". They helped build the infrastructure to block information.

If I send an email to anyone with a Yahoo.cn account which has the words "democracy" or "civil society", it will bounce back.

These companies are the keepers of information from a billion people for profit. Google is just the latest manifestation of the bigger story.

My blog has been affected by this. On my 30th birthday I wrote about my birthday wish: a democratic China. I went on holiday to China, stayed in a state-owned hotel, and checked my blog from there.

When I returned to Hong Kong, I couldn’t get onto the site. Even the host had been blocked. It became a bit of a cause celebre. Bloggers around the world turned their sites black as a gesture of solidarity.

Some bloggers may say this is not an important issue but I don’t think enough attention can be paid to Chinese internet censorship. If I were based a few miles across the border, I wouldn’t be able to do what I am doing now.

The internet is the way forward to break the silence in China. Every media outlet is state owned. The internet is the back door. For the people who care, it is a hopeful technology.