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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.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday August 11 2016, @03:55PM
From the graphic, it looks like by far most of the flow is from government officials going to work at Google and not the other way around. Are there any conflicts of interest for this?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @05:31PM
From the graphic, it looks like by far most of the flow is from government officials going to work at Google and not the other way around. Are there any conflicts of interest for this?
Of course there is. Everything the Obama administration does is a conflict of interest. Since he's a Kenyan muslim who has collaborated with the People Who Hate Us™ since he was a little boy.
Especially since before the Obama administration, no other politician, staffer, political appointee or other government employee has ever come from private industry or gone to private industry. Geez! You people are thick. Haven't you been paying attention?
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday August 11 2016, @11:27PM
How woul dyou feel about this if it were 1967, and AT&T were the subject, rather than Google?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @06:01AM
I've been too busy protecting my guns from him. This time he's really going to come for them, we promise!