People often cite the cynical business reasons why Google pulled out of China, but this article makes me wonder why no one ever cites the reasons why China began to ramp up the pressure on Google these past two years. Baidu has come to its own (at least in the Chinese market), and maybe they don't feel they need Google anymore.
jhancock, you might be right on this, but the problem I see is that your thinking is still within the Party line. Party says that censorship must be done, so everyone should obey the Party. But what I think Brin understood is, that it is just not correct to obey Chinese communist party... that it is wrong to do that. So they just stopped to do that after realizing that it is wrong.
