Do I detect the faint sound of whining from E&P? After the newspapers go belly up there won't be much need for E&P will there? The next generation won't believe that we once got our news by squashing trees flat and smearing ink on them.
Also, I see no mention in the E&P whine that Yahoo acquiesced to the Chinese objections some time ago. As another poster pointed out, if you want to do business in a country, you obey the laws of that country
Essentially, Google has said that they can do more good (less evil) by being in China and going along with the program than by not being in China at all.
In their, a'hem, unbiassed opinion...
Seems to me a lot of Google shareholders may be supporting its censorship in service to the Chinese Communists for other than 'idealistic' reasons.