Team Google.

I really recommend reading this great article by New York Times writer Roger Cohen. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/opinion/15iht-edcohen.html?ref=opinion
I never thought I could be so proud of my E-mail provider. Google is obviously so much more than my e-mail provider. I'm a google fanatic- google reader, google docs, google calendar. I have it all but everyone knows how influential and pervasive , not to mention transformative, the company is. My generation can have a myopic view of the world pre-google. Often I am in conversation revolving goggle as if i was the cell phone or the Internet-What did people do before google?
When a service becomes this much or a cornerstone of advancement and knowledge diffusion, it has some weight to throw around. And throw around, or should I say down, it did. While China reluctantly embraces change in the name of globalization, the governemts censorship permeates every sectior and leaves no rock, or server, unturned.
Google really isnt too pysched to have something censoring searches and tampering with accounts so in a monumental move for both foreign policy and globalzation- google is withdrawing google.cn.
Finally Chinas incompatible polices have met. Globalization is not possible without open market systems. But more than the predicament China faces, google has shown that there companies can be successful without compromising their ethics. Removing google.cn isn't a profitable move, but google realizes the revenue they would be receiving would be at the steep price of everything they stand for- freedom of information.