[LwinAungSoe]

Sorry. My comment should be like this: Is money more important than democracy, freedom and human rights? This simply shows that if the world democracies want China to become likewise, internet users cooperated with Microsoft, Google and Yahoo is the best strategy.
 

[brownsfan]

Is money more important than democracy, freedom and human rights?

How dare you ask such an uninformed question here. The answer of course is YES!!!

Let's sell them our tech. Let's ship our manufacturing there. Let's sell them our politicians. Then we can go to WalMart and buy cheap crap, come home and check our computers to see how our stocks are doing. This will go on indefinately. The Chinese are cute and cuddly. They will only abuse their own people and make them slaves for us. The Chinese have no designs on us or our way of lives.

[The_Victor]

Is money more important than democracy, freedom and human rights?

Companies don't exist to promote a political agenda, they exist to make money for their shareholders. If the people of China want freedom and democracy, then they need to demand it from their government. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are not going to do it unless there is a profit in it.

[cubram]

The party to blame here is the Chinese government for denying access to this information. These companies are not in the "Democracy spreading" business, but want to continue to do business in China. They obviously felt this necessary to keep this lucrative market.