Google and other accused

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Chinese computer users are barred from some websites
Four leading US technology companies have been accused of helping China to subdue political strife in return for access to its internet market.
The accusation was levelled against Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco Systems and Google at a Congressional hearing on the ethics of doing business in China.

full story: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4699242.stm

Quite interesting, anyway this is a kind of paranoia i think, also in Romania in Ceausescu's ages everyone have seen in new thing an agression from the occident.
It seems that this paranoia is quite common to all the comunists regims.

Ovi

This might be right, depending on the on which side you are looking. The big companies will surely do anything to have access or even control of a market with more than 1 billion possible buyers.

On the other hand, China has done some incredible developement in the last decade and it is still developing. Granting the freedome to make yourself a company is just the other way the communism is working, where everything should be everybody's. These companies want's to make their way before some of these 1 billion souls will make them some competition.