Google Sells Out One Billion Chinese

Google has dropped to their knees in front of the communist Chinese government:

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin said his company's decision to self-censor its Chinese search system followed a change of heart over how best to foster the free flow of information.

Google said on Tuesday it will block politically sensitive terms on its new China search site and not offer e-mail, chat and blog publishing services, which authorities fear can become flashpoints for social or political protest. Those actions go further than many of its biggest rivals in China.

"I didn't think I would come to this conclusion -- but eventually I came to the conclusion that more information is better, even if it is not as full as we would like to see," Brin told Reuters in an interview in Switzerland.

Google, whose high-minded corporate motto is "Don't be evil," had previously refused to comply with Internet censorship demands by Chinese authorities, rules that must be met in order to locate business operations inside China -- the world's No. 2 Internet market.

"I know a lot of people are upset by our decision but it is something we have deliberated for a number of years," Brin said from the sidelines of the World Economic Forum conference.

Google continued and improved on the Internet revolution, a revolution that will not come to the Chinese because of oppressive government policies.

The next time that Bill Gates or the boys from Google espouse their lefty rhetoric, remember how they folded when the opportunity for real civil liberties presented itself and they chose to bow the the party of Mao.