Compromised mission:

‘Google management was concerned that its service to end users in China did not meet Google’s standards of efficiency and speed because the Chinese government was censoring search results, redirecting users to other search engines at times and at other times blocking access to google completely”

“Google  also believed that its mission to provide users access to the worlds information was being compromised.”

“Self-censorship was an affront not only to Google’s commitment to “not doing evil,” but to important U.S. democratic values such as free speech. Compromising those values would indirectly send the message to the Chinese Government and the Chinese people that human rights violations could be overlooked. It would also send the message to the rest of the world that Google would compromise those values.”