Today's big news was actually out yesterday... Google might leave China. While this might seem like a poor decision for Google's investors it seems like a good moral decision by the high-ups at Google. Apparently their company motto is "don't be evil." It's difficult to tell whether or not censoring some information can qualify as "evil," but it's certainly not in the best interest of Chinese citizens.
After a "sophisticated attack," on Google's networks, likely engineered (in my estimation,) by the Chinese government, Google has decided it will no longer censor searches on Google.cn. Google will meet with Chinese government officials over the next few weeks to discuss what the company's future in China might or might not entail. In a brilliant stroke of irony, the news of Google leaving China this morning because of its unwillingness to censor searches... was censored in China.
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