Unpredictable. Unfocused. Just like life.

So Google has decided to censor search results in China. This may at least be an improvement from no service at all.

Rebecca MacKinnon say that by censoring results Google is committing evil and comments:

One of the big problems with the search experience in China right now is that if you use Yahoo or Baidu or Sina search, you have no way of knowing that information exists out there that you've been denied access to.

I hate to be the one to point this out, but no matter where you are you never really know if you've been denied access to something.

I'm not sure that following a country's laws can actually be deemed evil, even if it involves democracy. If anything is every going to change in China it is going to have to change from within. If Google and Microsoft don't play along for now they will just be excluded, and that won't help anyone.

So does that make every television and radio station evil if they comply with FCC regulations on speech?