You're right, it is as black and white as it gets.......Google could never achieve a decent market share in China and Google HQ needed a way out of the market without admitting defeat and send stock prices plummeting. They have become heroes in the west for standing up to China but in actual fact they created the war (Wag the Dog comes to mind). Censorship is fine as long as there are profits - no profits move your soap box to the moral high ground!

recommendations for those who want to be Google free:

Search engine - Yahoo (connects to the US)
Web browser - Firefox (Google chrome will not let you change the default search engine)

free email - Hotmail (lack of a better choice)

Unfortunately maps and earth have yet to be outdone

Don't worry, they are just inviting competition - won't be long before we have options I'm sure.

Hey Catherine,

Have you found anyone yet? I was gonna get started in January but this sounds not to bad - problem is I will go back to Canada for Christmas so I'll miss a couple of weeks. I'll give you a ring tomorrow (Saturday) to discuss.

Bruce

Just to clarify,

I did see this school around town, I believe they are called KFC. Several locations so they must be ligit

Thanks JJ - I now understand the importance of this subject to you but complaining and passing judgement from behind your router will surely not fix the problem. Kunming expat community is small and you or someone you know, knows the person in question. Have a sit down. A lot of inferences and assumptions have been made on peoples opinions rather than fact. I don't know the facts, but I do know this person has friends and I would hope that if they felt there was a problem to deal with they are on a personal level - face to face.

If someone in our community has a problem then it is up to us as a community to help that person - stoning them in public will not fix anything.