I'm not saying I don't understand why they are doing it. But I also understand why news media in a totalitarian regime toe the party line, say. And they are a

I'm not saying I don't understand why they are doing it. But I also understand why news media in a totalitarian regime toe the party line, say. And they are also damned if they do, damned if they don't. Again, I am not claiming that Google should be doing something different. They may well not have any other options. I'm claiming that we should be aware of what they (and various other companies and governments!) are doing and act accordingly. If someone claimed that the US government "isn't trying to control or limit what people think", say, that would probably be met with a healthy dose of skepticism. Even more so for the Chinese government. My argument is that such claims about Google should also be treated sceptically. Not as sceptically as the Chinese government; hard to compare tothe US government.