It figures. Leave it to the government to spark the fight, then back off into the corner because they don’t want to make the Chinese angry at them.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a major speech on Internet freedom two months ago, called on US technology firms not to support online censorship.

“I hope that refusal to support politically motivated censorship will become a trademark characteristic of American technology companies,” Clinton said. “It should be part of our national brand.”

Amid a host of trade disputes with China, however, Google’s decision last week to halt censorship there met with only a fairly muted response from the State Department — and virtual silence from other US technology giants.

Stay strong Google. Some of us are behind you in this fight, I just wish you would have started it before you moved into China in the first place.

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