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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @04:52PM
You can't stop assholes from being assholes, but you can keep your distance from them. This story is a good example for anyone who wants Gaggle on their resume, don't bother folks! They are evil, massively undeniably evil. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if all their PC crap is actually intentional in order to further divide people. Or perhaps they really are trying to change the world by enforcing highly questionable rules, in which case they are vastly overestimating their importance. Even quite liberal people such as myself are turned off by their evil nature, and no amount of PC goodwill is going to change that. In fact the recent stories show that they've simply folded the concept of PC into their wider plans for eeeevilll.
I had a roommate that worked for yelp and then moved to google. I told him about yelp basically acting like the mafia and he wouldn't hear a word of it, typical young smart person underestimating how fucked up humanity can be. So now he's at google, hopefully he gets wiser after his years over there but I doubt it, there is a certain level of arrogance that requires massive blowback to spur change.