No, I wouldn't want to be part of a company that encouraged an oppressive new regime to rise to power, but I think that's a straw man. If an oppressive new reg

No, I wouldn't want to be part of a company that encouraged an oppressive new regime to rise to power, but I think that's a straw man. If an oppressive new regime rises, then it's bad because it's oppressive, and you couldn't blame it on the existence of freedom of communication during the revolution. Of course I don't speak for Google in any of this, but I think it's simply supporting the notion that, when in doubt, more freedom of communication is probably better. (At least at this point, where the status quo is currently, "cut off from the outside world".)