I'm sure there is a whole range of sentiments in China toward the issue of censorship and blocked foreign sites. I don't claim to know what exactly those sentim

I'm sure there is a whole range of sentiments in China toward the issue of censorship and blocked foreign sites. I don't claim to know what exactly those sentiments are or for how many people it raises political questions at all. But I think that Google's refusal to collaborate with Chinese censors has been an important statement in favor of democracy and freedom of expression that was heard all over the world. Some in China will have heard it as well. Google's reputation will suffer from this and it will hurt them in a lot of indirect ways, such as hiring, discussions about taxation, competition regulation, advertising rules, privacy laws, developer sentiment towards their platforms, etc.