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posted by n1 on Thursday August 11 2016, @08:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the welcome-to-the-club dept.

Resistance, as they say, is futile. According to the Google Transparency Project, and reported by watchdog.org "More than 250 people have moved from Google and related firms to the federal government or vice versa since President Barack Obama took office."

22 former White House officials went to work for Google and 31 executives from Google and related firms went to work at the White House or were appointed to federal advisory boards by Obama. Those boards include the President's Council on Science and Technology and the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Of additional interest, besides revolving doors between Google and the FCC, 25 officials in national security, intelligence or the Department of Defense joined Google, and three Google executives went to work for the DOD.

I think ordinary discussion of market forces, laissez-faire and the role of Government is irrelevant in regards to a system in which this is normal and institutionalized practice.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:08PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:08PM (#386594) Journal

    Suppose this wasn't about Google but Apple, and during the whole encryption fiasco they oh so reluctantly passed on the keys.

    Would say there might be a conflict on interest?

    Are you suggesting that oh, the mighty Apple's employees have higher moral rectitude [opensecrets.org] than Google's [opensecrets.org], this is why they aren't engaged in anything resembling "revolving door"?

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