"We just happen to like our laws better than Chinese laws."
That's your definition of the moral and legal difference between the free people of the United States and the dictatorship in China - we "like our laws better".
Let us pray!!!!
Hey, I like our laws better because I believe freedom is important. But Google is not powerful enough to get the Chinese government to change its laws, and getting in there with a Chinese language search engine even with the government restrictions gives the Chinese people more freedom to get information than if Google just refused on principle. And the English language version of Google IS operable in China, and Google doesn't subject that to the Chinese-government directed censorship. Personally I think we'd do better to attack Google for its voluntary censorship in the US, where it refuses to accept sponsored link advertising from perfectly legal gun dealers. Google is doing the minimum imposition on user freedom allowable under Chinese law. The same cannot be said for its operating policies in the US.