Western companies The Western companies need to end their hypocrisy over free speech in China, and start helping to end censorship in the country. The co-founders of GreatFire, an organisation dedicated to fighting the so-called Great Firewall of China. So the technological heart of state censorship in the country, said it hurts to see companies such as Apple citing Chinese censorship in their battles with western governments, while co-operating with authoritarian state in order to earn money from its burgeoning middle classes and take advantage of its enormous manufacturing base. But technology firms, including Apple, often cite China when arguing with western states about repressive internet restrictions. So instead working hand-in-glove with the Chinese state o profit from the country’s vast internal market. He also praised Google for their decision in 2010 to stop censoring search results and pull out of mainland China. Censorship The Google was tempered with caution, ho...