> By exiting China, except pleasing the those moral puritans, I fail to see what exactly Google achieves. You don't even have to have much imagination to reali

> By exiting China, except pleasing the those moral puritans, I fail to see what exactly Google achieves. You don't even have to have much imagination to realize that by exiting China, Google removed the leverage the Chinese government had over it. If Google has operations in China that it values, the Communist Party can use those operations as a hostage to manipulate Google, just like it did with the airlines. Do you want an authoritarian government to have leverage over the service that you use to search for the answers to your questions? It's not inconceivable that that the CCP might use that leverage to get Google to change the rankings of its search results to be more to its liking.