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Google Silent on Supporting American Legislative Exchange Council

posted by n1 on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:35AM   Printer-friendly
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It's worth noting that even Microsoft has withdrawn its support of the group.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?

 
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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06 2014, @08:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06 2014, @08:35AM (#90131)

    I live a 100% googleless life myself since something like 5 years and am enjoying it. You can too.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday September 06 2014, @10:12AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday September 06 2014, @10:12AM (#90143) Journal

    What search engines do you use?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06 2014, @02:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06 2014, @02:09PM (#90188)

      Currently I use duckduckgo. I also tried Yacy some time ago but it was a bit too resource hungry. Open for suggestions.

    • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:20PM

      by cafebabe (894) on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:20PM (#90239) Journal

      I use Ask [ask.com]. It is optimized for soccer moms [webmasterworld.com], so it is particularly good for pop culture, arts and crafts, health and those embarrassing gaps in general knowledge.

      If you switch search engine, there is always the FUD [Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt] that you'll miss one vital result. This is amplified if the order of results differs due to differing search engine demographics. However, you should persevere.

      (As an example of search engine demographics, Google ran popular searches on Yahoo and concluded that their competitor was inferior. However, Yahoo ran popular searches on Google and came to the same conclusion. This is correct because the aggregate requirements of each search engine differs.)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:07PM (#90233)

    How?

  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:12PM

    by Tork (3914) on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:12PM (#90237)

    I use Bing and am enjoying it. You can too.

    FTFY.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @12:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @12:24PM (#90468)

      Looks like you have no idea what google is.

      • (Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday September 07 2014, @05:53PM

        by Tork (3914) on Sunday September 07 2014, @05:53PM (#90514)
        That'd be real convenient for you if it were true. You need a distraction about now!
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