So I applaud the company for taking a stand today:
At 7am Beijing time, Google's top lawyer, David Drummond, posted an announcement to Google's blog stating that hackers operating from China had attacked Gmail servers, with the intention of accessing the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The statement said the attacks had led Google to review its operations in China, and it had decided to stop censoring the search results of Google.cn, the China-localised site it has operated since 2006. This may mean it would have to cease operations in China.
China, notwithstanding some who are pining for their so-called enlightened despotism, is pretty close to evil in its totality. We may have to deal with them as a matter of realism. But Google does not.
