Today Google announced that they intend to stop filtering results in China on Google.cn, or else they'll close down the site and all of their Chinese offices. They'll work with the Chinese government to see if it's possible to keep their operations in place, and now that they've got some leverage I think they've got as good a chance as anyone.
Less censorship is always a good thing. No, what's wrong is that Google had to include this in their statement:
The decision to review our business operations in China has been incredibly hard, and we know that it will have potentially far-reaching consequences. We want to make clear that this move was driven by our executives in the United States, without the knowledge or involvement of our employees in China who have worked incredibly hard to make Google.cn the success it is today.
Google's not only concerned about their business in China, but they obviously recognized a need to protect all of their employees in China, a country where people regularly get sent to prison for life for criticizing the government. Sometimes you forget what century we're in.
