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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 jmorris on Friday September 01 2017, @03:17AM (2 children)
Dude, get a grip. Also pay me some shekels. I'm not living rent free in your head. Tis a silly place.
I got banned from mods earlier in the year, never figured out why either. You didn't see me pissing and whining though and it ended as mysteriously as it began. So suck it up, ride it out. It's just a BBS and you haven't even been banned from posting. It isn't like you have been banned from registering web domains for life, even on "bulletproof registrars", banned from dating sites or banned from accepting credit card payments, you haven't been banned from Youtube or AdSense. Look out at the world, the banhammer is the new hotness, save your bitching for when you get some serious oppression coming at you.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday September 01 2017, @04:13AM
Yes, all the complaining is unseemly, but it is not about me, jmorris, it is about all those other soylentils who are being silenced in the name of free speech!
So, at least I'm not a Nazi? That means a lot, coming from you, jmorris. Thanks.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 01 2017, @09:32AM
If the inexplicable happens in the future, it's better to raise the question on one of the IRC channels, where an admin can look at the issue in real time, and discussion can occur. And no, that's not an attempt to hide the issue - the IRC channels are all publically logged, it's just a more efficient place for real-time discussion.
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