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Google Silent on Supporting American Legislative Exchange Council

posted by n1 on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:35AM   
from the pay-to-play dept.

hash14 writes:

Ars Technica reports on Google's continued involvement with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the notorious corporate lobbying group.

Common Cause and more than 50 other advocacy groups this week called on Google to end its affiliation with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group that has pushed state laws limiting the rights of cities and towns to create community-owned broadband networks. ALEC also opposes network neutrality rules that Google used to be a staunch supporter of and last month urged the FCC to quickly approve Comcast’s purchase of Time Warner Cable without imposing any regulatory conditions on the merger.

[...] When contacted by Ars, a Google spokesperson replied, “we aren't going to be commenting on this letter.”

It's worth noting that even Microsoft has withdrawn its support of the group. Has hell frozen over?

• I hate being right. I hate being right. (Score: 4, Insightful) by Subsentient on Saturday September 06 2014, @06:09AM

  by Subsentient (1111) on Saturday September 06 2014, @06:09AM (#90109) Homepage Journal

  I keep telling people that Google is worse than Microsoft nowadays, but people just keep hating on Mr. Bill and ignoring the clown-colored Borg cubes surrounding them.

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• Re:I hate being right. (Score: 1) by pnkwarhall on Saturday September 06 2014, @07:00PM

  by pnkwarhall (4558) on Saturday September 06 2014, @07:00PM (#90290)

  Clown-colored borg cubes!!!
  
  Oh I wish I had mod points....

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