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According to The Guardian Google is a major funder of the New America Foundation, some researchers of which criticized monopolies and lauded the EU for levying a record fine for Google for antitrust reasons. This apparently wasn't received well at the advertisement company and subsequently the team who did the research got the boot.
Now might be a good time to consider your dependence on all services GOOG.
The New America Foundation is one of the leading left-leaning policy groups in the US and is led by Anne-Marie Slaughter, an author, foreign policy analyst and political scientist. In June, Barry Lynn, a senior fellow who led the thinktank's Open Markets initiative, wrote a blogpost praising the EU's decision to levy a record €2.42bn ($2.7bn) fine on Google for breaching antitrust rules and abusing its market dominance. "Google's market power is one of the most critical challenges for competition policymakers in the world today," Lynn wrote.
According to The New York Times, shortly after the post was published Schmidt, who chaired New America until 2016, contacted Slaughter to communicate his displeasure.
The blogpost was temporarily removed from New America's website before being reposted. Days later, Slaughter told Lynn that "the time has come for Open Markets and New America to part ways", according to an email from Slaughter to Lynn obtained by the Times. Slaughter said the decision was "in no way based on the content of your work" although she she accused Lynn of "imperiling the institution as a whole".
New America has received roughly $21m from Google, Schmidt and his family foundation since 1999. The organisation's main conference room in Washington DC is called the Eric Schmidt Ideas Lab.
Lynn and his 10-strong team have now set up Citizens Against Monopoly. "Is Google trying to censor journalists and researchers who fight dangerous monopolies?" the website asks. "Sadly, the answer is: YES."
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 31 2017, @08:44AM (2 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @03:28PM (1 child)
Google will learn the lesson too late. What they do is self destructive to the core. For every one of the chaps that speaks out and is shit-canned, there is 10 or 100 even more who disagree with Google but do not speak up. Tell me what is the upside of having thousands of people who work for you secretly hate you? What will happen to Google will be fucking barbaric, and totally self-inflicted. I'm talkign about senior people leaving to competitors or starting their own competing products, as Google spends more and more of it's money trying to maintain it's dominant position instead of innovating. Their technology will go from top-notch, to just OK, to ORACLE tier. Their ranks will dwindle, only to be replenished with psychopaths. Their work environment will become a toxic shithole, driving out every last bit of competent yet somewhat unpolitical talent because no one wants to work there. And soon enough the only people they will get to work for them are H1B slaves.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 01 2017, @10:55AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves