Freedom has gone offline in China, along with Google’s international search site.

China enacted a national block to Google.com’s uncensored international search engine, Google News and Google Mail on 31 May, according to the BBC. Replacing the site is Google.cn, the censored Chinese language version that launched in January.

The new search engine censors “sensitive” political material in order to comply with Chinese laws. Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, said he feels the move was warranted to maintain Google’s presence in the country.

“We felt that perhaps we could compromise our principles but provide ultimately more information for the Chinese and be a more effective service,” he said.

It seems in complying with Chinese internet censorship, Google has forgotten its motto: Don’t be evil. But, it has good company as Yahoo! and Microsoft have also shown acceptance of internet repression.