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I go back and forth on the issue of what Yahoo and Google, et. al., need to be and need to do in countries where the government don't share the same sensibilities about free expression, privacy and censorship.  Still, Google's noteworthy and notorious credo about doing no evil will surely get a stern test in China, as the company's technology continues to flatten and shrink the world.  In a recent editorial, Lantos vs. Yahoo , the San Francisco Chronicle fires shots across the bows of Google as well as Yahoo.  Jerry Yang is the latest pinata. Anticipate more artillery as the Beijing Olympics draw nigh and the tech giants weigh issues far more sobering than those to which they're accustomed.