China 'unblocks' BBC News site
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/25/digitalmedia.chinathemedia

Chinese authorities appear to have stopped blocking the BBC News website, making the English-language version of the site fully accessible throughout the country. The Chinese government has never officially confirmed that it blocked traffic to the site, but for years web users in China have been served an error message when attempting to access the BBC and other western news sites. BBC staff in China have reported for several days that they can access stories on the corporation's news website which would previously have been blocked, including stories on the unrest in Tibet.
However, the Chinese-language site still appears to be blocked. Users are served a page that says "the connection has been reset" when attempting to access pages, giving the appearance of a technical error with the BBC's site
The BBC has said that some Chinese web users flout web blockades with routing tools that hide their location, but for most of China's 210 million citizens with Internet access the site remains inaccessible.
China is coming under increasing scrutiny as it prepares to host the Olympic Games in Beijing this August. The country's web population is about to overtake the US to become the world's largest Internet market.

This article highlights the censorship of Internet sites that are controlled by the government, as Chinese citizens currently not able to access most western news sites, in addition to sites such as Youtube. This is partly because the Chinese government may not want citizens to read news that goes against the current political party's interests or questions their judgements.