What is the improvement the Internet have done for the Chinese users?

everyone, the news is upset me very much because Chinese internet users face some problems while they use it. A freedom to express themselves is still a long way to go.

US Internet companies as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft found that China has an high profit market for them to explore. The growing rate of internet users increases 18% each year. They want to build their locations of a server to gain more sponsors from local industry companies, as the news reveals on http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060215_060300.htm. Those companies are exciting to enter the market. Even on the conditions that they have to block some informations which are against the interests of the Chinese authority, moreover, the government can ask for user's address any time. Therefore, we can see people were put to jails as the news reported. http://www.news.com/Google-to-censor-China-Web-searches/2100-1028_3-6030784.html. Therefore, the Human Right group is angry and wants explaination, and the accusations can be seen in http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/china0806/5.htm.htm. But the internet companies avoid the risks for the whole Chinese users, and say their goal is to serve more people (on the other hand, to promote their market). Sadly, Internet will no longer be a security place for chinese users to express their opinions in China. The western principles of freedom to speech and personal privacy seem to be submitted to the political power. We could say that the human right is another product to be sold by those Internet companies.