"Google has demonstrated that any given company wielding sufficient power relating to the free flow of information has the capacity to make a big difference in moving to help liberate countries such as China"<p>How so? Has China moved yet, in reaction? It seems very unlikely to me that they would, and Google is not even the most popular search engine in China.<p>As for unstoppable technological progress, there are lots of examples of political regimes keeping their countries in the dark ages.