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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: 3, Insightful) by Lester on Thursday August 31 2017, @11:10AM (5 children)
You are right, they shouldn't have accepted it as partner and its money in first place. Google was then a good candidate as subject of investigation.
"New America Foundation" should loose its reputation and be forgotten as foundation and just take it as a propaganda organization. The new organization "Citizens Against Monopoly" should take the torch of "New America Foundation", and not accept moguls in its board.
Do you know what is the problem? That foundations need money, citizens' money, crowdfounding, is not usually enough. So "Citizens Against Monopoly" will remain as a poor group friends with no influence in media or visibility.
Money makes the world round.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @03:21PM
As I sit here "working" at a job I don't really enjoy any longer and cannot leave for at least few months because I'm under a retention contract which I somewhat regret but as I have learned: "It's hard as fuck to say no to the money."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @04:46PM
Nitpick: money make the world GO round. Gravity is the round making part.
(Score: 3, Touché) by mcgrew on Thursday August 31 2017, @05:20PM (2 children)
"New America Foundation" should loose its reputation...
How does one set a reputation free??
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(Score: 2) by Lester on Thursday August 31 2017, @08:27PM
Sorry, I translated an idiom. I meant "This should have destroyed its reputation"
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday September 01 2017, @09:35AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves