My point is, how many people would have known the effects of China's questionable activities and had the knowledge to question them if it were not for Google?
Until now, Western corporations have primarily gone along with China's policies. However, now that Google has taken the admirable step of seeking open and public resistance to China's policies, other Western corporations will be questioned why they collaborate with China's demands to not only censor material, but also assist in prying into private emails (Yahoo).
Priorities will become all too apparent in companies like Microsoft, who's search engine Bing censors information both inside and outside of China, and Apple, who block the downloading of apps relating to the Dalai Lama.
And besides the approximate thousand scientists who participated in the survey I mentioned yesterday, there are still an estimated tens of millions of Chinese citizens who use Google everyday who will begin to question the Chinese government if they choose to drive Google out of the country rather than lowering their demands.
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