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Actually, it is a matter of values, about the kind of society you wish to live in.
We take for granted we are able to publish and post whatever we think, but we should be glad we can do it, because it doesn´t have to be this way. Imagine living with fear of being prosecuted without formal process, fearing being tortured in the basis of suspicion of not backing the present rule.
Life in China is not far from that, and we here are failing to understand that miserable existance can extend to us if we don´t make a clear statement that we will not allow this to happen to us. In real life, rights ( including human rights ) are not granted by birth or law, but by the willingness people have to defend those rights. Those who are not willing to defend their freedom will ultimately lose it. This is not a question about business, this is a political issue, an issue about what we are willing to defend.
Are we willing to give up some things to defend our right to live in a free society?
I regard freedom an essential part of life, as I believe most of us do so as well.
