So it has happened. Google has caved in. It has agreed to actively censor a new Chinese-language search service that will be housed on computer servers inside the PRC.
Obviously this contradicts its stated desire to make information freely available to everybody on the planet, and it contradicts its mission statement: "don’t be evil." As Mike Langberg at the San Jose Mercury News puts it: their revised motto should now read "don’t be evil more than necessary."