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It's worth noting that even Microsoft has withdrawn its support of the group.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

• Re:Just say no to google Re:Just say no to google (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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• Re:Just say no to google Re:Just say no to google (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.

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  • Re:Just say no to google (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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