Whatever this leads Google needs to stay in China even if they ban it in Hong Kong. Supposedly one of the reasons Google's stand has been so "principled" is be

Whatever this leads Google needs to stay in China even if they ban it in Hong Kong. Supposedly one of the reasons Google's stand has been so "principled" is because of Sergey Brin's early years in the Soviet Union. That begs the question though, if the Soviet Union had Google and the internet would it have collapsed sooner or would it have taken longer?