It is not, strictly speaking, about censorship. Google is the best in the world at gathering information about people. If they operate in China, they will have

It is not, strictly speaking, about censorship. Google is the best in the world at gathering information about people. If they operate in China, they will have to give over all that information to the Chinese government, of course. They have already built the largest surveillance apparatus in the Western world that has ever existed - imagine what the CCP could do with that? Yes, Baidu already does this. But no one can do it as well as Google.