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Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence

posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 04 2019, @03:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the swaying-public-opinion dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Google exec suggests Elizabeth Warren is misguided and only big tech can prevent "the next Trump situation"

A new Project Veritas report includes an undercover video, leaked documents, and statements from a whistleblower that all paint a grim picture of Google's apparent lack of fairness, and its bias.

Google's now a very powerful company, and that's upsetting both sides in the US political divide.

As a consequence, many politicians are looking for ways to contain that power – either by applying antitrust or some other type of legislation against the company.

In the comments recorded in an undercover video, Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, cheerfully and not without a hint of hubris acknowledges that Google has been called to appear before Congress many times – but simply chose to ignore those invitations.

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  • (Score: 1) by Fock on Tuesday November 05 2019, @12:12AM

    by Fock (5105) on Tuesday November 05 2019, @12:12AM (#916040)

    From that submission,

    I think reasonable people would say, at a minimum, posting illegally-obtained material to the internet warrants a ban.

    So the Pentagon Papers and everything Wikileaks published and every leak that comes out of Washington shouldn't be published? Every reporter in the free world would disagree with you and martyb