Google's founders pledge that they will always abide by a simple and comprehensive ethics policy: "don't be evil." In fact, they do users of their services all sorts of favors. For instance, as their spokeswoman said Friday, "Google has decided that in order to create the best possible search experience for our mainland China users [our Chinese news service] will not include sites whose content is not accessible" because the sites themselves are blocked by the Chinese government's "Great Firewall". Because letting the Chinese see even a little of the news that their government is trying to deny them might just make them feel bad.

via Slashdot and p2pnet; note that the p2pnet article also suggests a possible chink in the Great Firewall for those in need.