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It's worth noting that even Microsoft has withdrawn its support of the group.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

• Power (Score: 3, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday September 06 2014, @06:56AM

  by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Saturday September 06 2014, @06:56AM (#90119)

  Yet another piece of proof that power and money corrupts anything that amasses enough of them.

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  "Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."

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