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You are absolutely right. With every word you say. Most users of Google all around the globe share your opinion.
I am from Switzerland and just created an “Open Letter to Google” with just one post and nothing else. The idea behind it is to collect as many comments as even possible and to then send the letter to Google. It will most probably not make them change their plans, but at least it is worth a try. And it is a clear statement, too. Please contribute and leave a comment on:
http://googlecensorship.blogspot.com/
If you like the idea, please spread the news.
Thanks, Alexander
Yahoo and Microsoft also cooperated with the Chinese government to censor some search results.
A lot of corporations are dead-on guilty of cooperating with countries pushing for censorship.
Alex, it's kind of ironic to have an anti-Google censorship blog on a Google-owned service. 
Koko, a word of advice... invest in a real blogsite. I think it's about time to expand. Even though I disagree with you about most of the times, but it's clear that you're starting to see the limitations of using a free blog service. Especially with all the new graphics you've been adding in the last months, these can be adjusted and placed in their proper places if you get a decent hosting service and a web program to do your blogging. Otherwise, your blogsite will end up looking very cluttered.
Just my two cents.
I used to work in China and it was awful trying to surf the net. So many sites came up "not found". and the wierdest stuff too. Why the Government didn't want to the chinese public to see any official USA military sites I couldn't figure. I was tryin to research history, Lewis Sorely book, Vietnam, the structure of the US Armed forces all of it blocked. Perahaps all of it blocked because something might contradict the "history" they teach the kids.
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I tried to use alternate services without any success. Nobody ever gave any clear cut instructions how to use them that i could find. I heard it was a cat and mouse game with being able to get through one day and then having to change servers. I hope things are better now on how to use alternate servers. I found best was i could listen to VOA and BBC on shortwave radio and internet.
One day I met the principal of my school out hiking. Guess what? He had a shortwave radio and listening to american broadcasts! 
It seems to me, human nature being what it is...when the Chinese people start "googling" and find everything missing they will become more suspicious of their goverment.
Perhaps a Revolution will start down the road. It's too early, but maybe the first pebble has been thrown.
Given the spectrum of privacy concerns that attend virtually all net-based queries, not to say all Web-based communications as such, could not Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) broaden its applications to allow anyone, anywhere, to correspond and fulminate with confidence that cyber-privacy not only will not but CANNOT be compromised at whim by some easy-way Echelon-type program?
"National security" concerns are valid, even crucial; but thirty years from now, when Islamic terrorism has receded to its dried-up cesspools, the policies/principles/procedures established to combat it --while no doubt of critical importance at the time-- will remain in force. No good to speculate that communications will have "outgrown" State capacity to snoop, with implicit threats to extort compliance on pain of self-serving bureaucratic perogatives... the one thing we do know, is that no bureaucracy ever sees itself for what it is, or downsizes for any reason whatsoever. Statist overreaching is invariably corrupting and stifling over time; and where States encroach on fundamental principles, the damage escalates to true societal malfunction.
True, the Constitution contains no "right to privacy" (pace NARAL et.al.), but free speech can be like smoking cigarettes: States do not make it illegal as such, only prohibitively expensive via spurious tax levies, or impossible by prohibiting its exercise anywhere outside cow pastures.
Your speech is free, free as a bird! But meanwhile, we will monitor every syllable, record it forever, and trot out whatever we choose to misinterpret at any time, under whatever pretense we desire. So feel free to incriminate yourself... on the other hand, should you object to our blanket surveillance, you are liable to criminal constraints as daring to obscure what we, your noble Government, are sure can only be a load of guilty secrets, as defined.
Aside from city-states from Athens to Venice, in all human history no large aglomerative polity has lasted more than some four hundred years. The mandarins bleed them dry... "apoplexy at the center, anemia at the extremities." The impulse is always to monitor, incriminate, suppress. Right now, China as usual exhibits the disease in prematurely advanced form, but that's what Communism does. Why not leverage DIT's toolkits against these murderous slobs, before we develop a full-grown subset of our own?
Yet another demonstration of this maxim: The internet was originally designed as a way to communicate during and after a global nuclear war. It treats censorship as battle damage and routes around it.
Oh so sorry Sherry, IT just doesn't work like that. A person really needs to spend time there to understand that nothing works the same, an school is not what you know as a school neither a workplace, nor a newspaper. The chinese have been working on social control for over 56 years. But I might ask you all to understand now why it is so necesary for the Chicoms to stir up the patriotic fervor of the people and find an EXTERNAL enemy (us). You should have seen what happened in China when their embassy full of possible spies got bombed.
They have been practising social control for over 56 years, nobody get your hopes up, They have losts of gulags and trumped up charges and executions . They like to fill the organ doner requests (requests from Westerners) they got their surgeons standing by on the execution grounds.
Lissen up folks, on the bottom line. Yeah you all got a special relationship with google now, but the real thing is the relationship of the chinese with their overlords.
Is the internet going to pull China down? Absoultely not, any truth can be twisted because the masters own their economic and social lives. Every work unit and school has a CCP rep.
However moderization may pull the CCP down and then internet can play an assistat role.. Time will tell, but 56 years of repression is not hopeful. They murder quietly and slowly, they murder publically and ostentatiously, it's all the same the paper prints a picture of the glorious sun shining on a file photo of Tiananmen.
Everybody is always happy comrade, they have always been happy , they will always be happy, I hope we will not be so happy here.
Yes, help them out as much as possible, because if they don't turn on their masters. they will turn on us, and we will be facing Chinese armies somewhere like troopships off Venuezuela protecting Chinese Oil interests or god knows where else.
One thing though with capitalism being an increasing favorite means of expressing the many Chinese new found wealth and joy (and toys), how long can communism withstand the onslaught of capitalism when greater wealth often require greater freedom of movements?
Already the internet in the United States helped contribute to the U.S. economy to the tune of billions of dollars a year in e-commerce online activity.
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