This is the typical reaction of a government that feels it can control the populace by ignorance. By making choice limited to only options pre-ordained by officials they only invite Rebellion and Revolution and to see Google give into this poor means of censorship is quite shocking as even now Google fights the Bush Administration for it and its patrons right to privacy as the Administration wants all logs of the recent searches done on Google's computers.
I hate having to agree with the popular comments on America from other countries but sometimes I am forced to agree like this one, it appears Google defends itself and its local patrons by shelling out words and meanings that it refuses to defend for others.
If you are in a bind with such kind of censorship, there are means for you to get by it without breaking any laws.
Foremost, everywhere you go is logged on a server computer by your ISP, some sites themselves log information on you such as your IP Address(with this they can find your name and relative location) What Operating System you have(This can serve as a Tactical Analysis of your machine for adware or malware attacks. And some even record what was in your Clipboard(CTRL+V) when you last copied text and pasted it.
To protect yourself you can GET A FIREWALL first!
STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER!
http://www.Mozilla.com FIREFOX is by far more secure then IE
use services such as
http://www.anonymizer.com which acts as a defense buffer between you and the computer you contact in order to access a website. You just enter the url you want to go into and the built in browser in Annonymizer's site and then it asks for the page you want to view not your computer which means it leaves no traces from your computer and avoids any restrictions on your computer parent server.
Or if you really need to,
use a proxy, now there's a whole lot about the pros and cons of proxy and rather then flooding this forum with it i'll just direct you here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
A proxy acts much in the way like Annonymizer except instead of browsing from another computer' browser like Annonymizer does, you use your own connecting your computer's browser directly with another(Which can be bad if your proxy is a Trap for you to connect and give access to your computer) but not a lot of proxies are like that, the majority are truely there to help other people so they can learn.
Hackers are people too, and one thing the majority of hackers agree on is that THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH! All people have an inalienable right to learn so anything that deals with Education is usually untouched by a REAL HACKER now a script kiddy on the other hand is like a kid who found his dad's gun they are just playing with exploits in programming without knowing exactly what they are doing and can harm themselves and others so be awear a proxy is a risk much in the same as a Peer to Peer network is, but less likely to be targeted by a Hacker who is waiting in ambush or be any other kind of deception.