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Google F*@# Yeah!

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

On the way home I heard the BBC World news report about the coordinated attacks coming from China, and Google's response and i said, out loud, "Fuck Yeah Goog bout time!".
Then right after that i think i started pumping my fist in the air and I beat up the beat