The Wall Street Journal weighs in on Google's dilemma:

Those sympathetic to Google's dilemma argue that adopting a "when-in-Rome" approach is better than pulling out of the mainland, even it means ethical compromises. "No one company can stand alone against Chinese censorship," argues Xiao Qiang, a Chinese Internet expert at the University of California at Berkeley.

These columns have long argued that opening China up to commerce, including the Internet, will eventually have a liberating effect on its politics. And we still believe this. But as a publishing company ourselves, we also believe in speaking out for freedom, even if it means being censored in China, or anywhere else. We understand the business dilemma that Google and the other giant Internet companies face in China, but we also hope they don't forget their larger obligation to a free society.