A Pew Internet & American Life Project report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the Internet should be ‘managed or controlled,’ 85% want the government to do this managing. This is resulting from surveys on Internet use over the last seven years in China. ‘The survey findings discussed here, drawn from a broad-based sample of urban Chinese Internet users and non-users alike, indicate a degree of comfort and even approval of the notion that the government authorities should control and manage the content available on the Internet.’ The report goes further into describing the divide in perspective between China and Western Nations on the matter and discusses the PRC’s justifications for Internet control.
My personal opinion is that this survey is about the fact that Chinese Netizens approve that their government make Internet safe (and many Western Governments do it). Concerning real censorship, many Chinese Netizens are not aware of it, simply because 90% of them only visit Chinese websites (which are obviously "regulated").
So we can conclude that they are not aware, but maybe they don’t need to be aware coz they’re not concerned… 
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