howfaristoofar?

With China quickly arriving as the economic force that we have all expected it to become, it cannot be surprising that with it a raft of ethical and moral conundrums have surfaced also.

A few months ago, Yahoo - bound by local business laws in china - helped to convict a chinese journalist by supplying vital information and evidence (as the state required it to).

Microsoft have gone - in my opinion - twenty steps too far in allowing the Chinese versions of it's software to prohibit online publication of materials using words such as "freedom" and "democracy".
Being the corporate poster childs that they are for western and capitalist economies, how much further can they take the blooming biscuit on this one?

For how much longer will The West beat their chest's and bang the human rights drum whilst continue to line it's pockets with Chinese Yuan at the expense of freedom and the very values they proport to uphold and cherish the most?
This sort of backwards rubbish unravels at the heart of it a complete lack of integrity as long as we prefer $ to values and justice, and to say that it has removed the jam from my doughnut would be vicious understatement.

How far is too far?
End of rant.