"Gee, if I had a company and the PRC govt asked me to do something, I would probably do the opposite."
But if you didn't do as the PRC asked, you'd lose business. What then? I would venture a guess that 9 out of 10 freepers would do exactly as the PRC asked.
Same thing goes for the US side of the pond, I bet. Modern day governments prefer to play omnipotent, and most people have some other objective (e.g. earn a profit) than tussling with the gov't - if they can go along to get along, it's nooo problem. For example, what happened to the internet archives (the wayback machine) of declassified LLNL technical reports after 9-11?
What's really odd is the US industry in crying censorship, racism, injustice, etc without actual occurance. For example, consider Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton in the race pimping industry. Consider also the NYT and it's whistle-blower sources who somehow can't be bothered to blow the actual whistle (i.e. to the actual authorities).
Fork em. Some business you don't need.