The DDT scare is an excellent analogy thanks. A book was written called "Silent Spring" that predicted the end of birdkind if DDT continued to be used. Certain scientists and the press "proved" that DDT was harmful to the environment and others jumped on the bandwagon until it was banned worldwide. People who opposed the ban were considered anti-science and anti-environmental (I remember, I was a schoolkid, they showed us movies in school about it). Recently, more science showed that the original "science" was absolute bunk and DDT is once again being used as a cheap, effective pesticide. Of course, in the interim, millions of people living in third-world countries have been sickened and killed by malaria that could have easily been controlled by the use of DDT. Bad science was used to make bad policy that hurt millions and millions of people.

It's admirable that Google is so fiercely defends free speech as long as your not Chinese.

That it refuses to bow to the will of a powerful government unless it's Chinese.

That it gives terrorists a platform from which to recruit and publish their propaganda, unless the "terrorist" organization happens to be a religion that the Chinese government finds unacceptable.

Stand firm Google!
Don't be evil!*


*except in China