... "Can we really expect private companies to effect national and international policy? Perhaps if they banded together - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL - and said 'Enough! We ask the Chinese government to respect the basic rights of humans to free speech and free association!'...

"Oh please, I then say to myself. Don't be freakin' naive. Unity on an issue as freighted as national policy on China? This from a group of companies who can't even interconnect their goddamn IM networks? It'll never happen."

- John Battelle