I don't think it's really that easy. Pulling out of China didn't prevent any evil, it just moved it to Baidu. Would the world have been a slightly-less-censor

I don't think it's really that easy. Pulling out of China didn't prevent any evil, it just moved it to Baidu. Would the world have been a slightly-less-censored place if Google had stuck it out in China, filtered some results, and pushed back in others? I think probably yes. Either way, having more competition between search engines in China couldn't possibly reduce information flow. Maybe this will make it more likely people can find banned content one way or the other. Turns out China can live without Google, and they need a plan B.