U.S. Lawmakers Scold Tech Companies for China Censorship

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives today ripped into Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems for making profits a higher priority than free expression in China. "Instead of using their power and creativity to bring openness and free speech to China, they have caved into Beijing's outrageous but predictable demands, simply for the sake of profits," said Representative Tom Lantos (D-California). They should have been developing new technologies to bypass the sickening censorship of government and repugnant barriers to the Internet. Instead, they enthusiastically volunteered for the Chinese censorship brigade."
Isn't this a fine case of "the pot calling the kettle black?"
I mean isn't this EXACTLY what the United States Does day after day. We could have by now maybe been out from under our addiction to oil had not one of Reagan's first acts upon assuming the presidency been to revoke one of Carters laws, forcing the auto makers to improve the gas economy of their vehicles.
And even now, who still doesn't think this Iraq war is all about oil? Either cheap oil for the United States people, or more likely more HUGE profits for the oil companies.. With thousands of innocents dying as a result, while corporations with personal ties (Halliburton) to the Bush administration profit obscenely.
And censorship, if you believe that also doesn't happen in this "free" country then you truly are censored, in your own mind. The "faulty" intelligence that led to the Iraq war, the torture being conducted in various parts of the world WITH the Unites States full knowledge and consent, the Katrina disaster AFTER the hurricane was gone. And all the many other instances where this Bush-whacking Government flip-flopped, covered up and or lied. None of these "truths" were ever intended to come to light - hence censorship.