Censorship of Google in China

Both Google and Yahoo have been criticized for censoring their search results in China. What are your feelings about this? Why should Google, or why should Google not, produce different search results for different countries?

Almost everything in the world has gone digital. When ARPANET was started in the 70s, I don’t think they knew exactly how big of a discovery the ‘net’ was, but it has been constantly growing for the past few decades. Although there are many negatives to having so much information on the web that is accessible to almost anyone, the benefits of the internet have clearly outweighed them. One downfall of the internet is the fact that once the information is on the web, it’s there for good. Once the information is out there, it is just dependent on how long people are going to look for it before they find what they want.
Search engines like Google and Yahoo should not restrict searches in different countries. Almost all web users know that there are plenty of things on the internet that are not true. If websites are restricted, people will really only get ‘half the story’ of what they are looking for. It is not up to the government to decide what people can and cannot view on the web.