Is what google is doing for Chinese government justified?

Recently search engine giant google (www.google.com) have come under fire because of providing a search engine (www.google.cn) to Chinese government which provides a censored result to the surfer. This is not the first time when these big companies have helped the Chinese government. At least there are 2 case by MSN when it gave the credential of its 2 users who wrote something against the Chinese government. Is it not that these big companies are promoting the dictatorship in China? People are afraid to speak their mind, which is a basic fundamental right of every individual.

But I have a strong feeling that when a search engine compromises like this, collaborated with government, it makes it much easier for the Chinese government to control what is being said on the Internet. However when the google displays the result in censored version of its search engine it will display the notification that certain content is being suppressed as per the local government policy. This is something similar to what is provided in the countries like Germany.

But we also need to consider what happens if google does not provide the alter search engine to Chinese government, someone else will do and with a population of 1.3 billion people and more than 100 million Internet users, China's largely untapped Internet market is very attractive to technology companies. Google is opening a research and development center in China and owns close to 6 % stake in Baidu.com, the most popular search engine in that country.

In the beginning google is going to offer only search facility, its not going to offer other services like gmail, blogger etc.