I’d love to hear their reasons why this won’t happen in the United States (or show us that it hasn’t already)

Davos Dispatches: Brin defends Google’s China move

Dig this:

This is nothing…there’s no malicious plan there, it just legitimately is a bottleneck that bandwidth is somewhat limited.

The worlds fastest growing economy, where 97% of all electronics are now manufactured or assembled (that may be a slight exaggeration, it may be only 95%), can’t add bandwidth?

Fortune: It’s probably by policy also.

Brin: I don’t know. I don’t want to speculate.

That’s more like it. The govt. wants to keep their people in the dark. And Google is just trying to help them out.

Later in the article:

Ken Roth: Google’s got a great philosophy of “Do No Evil.” And I’m sure they say well, “It’s better for us to be there than for us not to be there and there are just a few things that people can’t search for.”

Fortune: But it’s fascinating that they’re resisting the slippery slope in the United States more than anyone else. If it wasn’t for their resistance we never would have heard that the Department of Justice was attempting to get all those search records, which Yahoo and MSN and AOL already turned over.

Ken Roth: Exactly. Google’s in the vanguard in the United States, and it’s compromising along with the rest of them in China. I’m surprised. I would have expected better from Google.

Why won’t that happen here? Are you sure when you google something that the results aren’t limited by government policy? Are you sure your name and IP information isn’t being saved or passed on to some as-yet-unknown agency?

Really, how can you tell?