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Members of Congress pilloried executives of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems at a hearing about their China operations. Google has offered a censored version of its Chinese search engine, which will turn out the kind of results that the Communist Party would like and thus will not be slowed down by filters and other impediments that now make it unattractive to Chinese users. But Google also kept its unexpurgated and thus frustratingly slow Chinese-language search engine available, so in effect, its decision gave Chinese Web users more choices rather than fewer. When members of Congress attacked executives of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems at a hearing about their China operations, there were three important people who couldn't attend. But it's a mistake to think of all the American companies as Google appears to have done nothing wrong at all. Google strikes Rebecca as innocent of wrongdoing. Google has offered a censored version of its Chinese search engine, which will turn out the kind of results that the Communist Party would like (and thus will not be slowed down by filters and other impediments that now make it unattractive to Chinese users).