China and Google have been waging a war of words for quite some time over China’s insistence that Google censor Chinese search results. China’s government can’t take the chance that its citizens will begin to freely exchange ideas, like in a free society, as the Chinese people might criticize their own government (GASP!).
Google’s big enough that they don’t need the Chinese market.
Google’s stock might be dropping over this debate, but their stock has gone up with a lot of people. And I’m sure that Google will return to the Chinese market when their government either changes their policy, or the Chinese government itself changes.
The Chinese people ought to be able to tell their own government what to go do with itself, without fear of the police arresting them and sending them off to forced labor “re-education” camps.
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