China has made it clear that if you want to do business in China, you play by Chinese rules – and that means things like no access to western media sources, information on falung gong, or anything else the Chinese government finds “objectionable”. In an effort to reach as broad an audience as possible, Google has voluntarily censored search results in China. Today Google announced that Chinese hackers had been targeting Google in an effort to spy on Chinese dissidents and human rights activists. In response, Google has basically decided to stop being a patsy and will no longer censor Google China. If this means they lose the Chinese market, so be it. Awesome.

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