Glenn at Instapundit has an excellent roundup of this growing issue about Google’s problematic relations with Red China’s government and its implications for freedom of press. The link is here.

Val at Babalu and Steve at Hog On Ice have additional thoughts – or well, deeds – here and here.

UPDATE: This just ran across the stock ticker:

Google (GOOG) lost 6.35 to 436.68 in high volume despite news it launched a search engine in China. The search engine censors topics that are sensitive to Beijing, creating some controversy. Google hit an intraday high of 454.23 before falling back.

THE MARKET IS HEARING US!!!