What's more, when results are censored on Google.cn, a notice appears informing the researcher that a specific item has been omitted due to Chinese government regulations \ufffd which is arguably far more subversive than the censored links. In effect, Chinese readers are being told, in so many politely understated words, that their government is frightened to death of its own people. That is likely to do far more to delegitimize the sclerotic dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party than collegehumor.com

None of this matters to Google's political and corporate enemies \ufffd a not quite accidental confluence of corporate competitors, congressional blowhards, China-hating neocons, and China-hating labor unions \ufffd who are now getting up on their high horses and demanding that Google be dragged before the "Human Rights Caucus" of Congress, with Tom Lantos, world-class hypocrite and champion warmonger, bloviating on behalf of the Democrats. Lantos, along with Republicans Sen. John Kyl and former Rep. Christopher Cox, sponsored legislation that would establish a brand new U.S. government agency: the Office of Global Internet Freedom.

This from a government that spies on its own citizens' e-mail, shuts down Web sites it doesn't like, has lately targeted the Internet as an "enemy weapons system," and has launched a covert program to "fight the net"