internet - Google News blocked: should we care?

I did not notice it very fast, since I mostly work through a proxy, but I did another check this morning and indeed, Google News is officially blocked. Now, for China-watchers this is a interesting fact, since why would it be blocked?
But on a practical level: there are so many more interesting things going on, I only got an email from one person who just arrived in China and did not know how proxies worked. Should we bother, now this internet block has become such a symbolic feature?