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<\/p>\nGood day all. Since Google, or as it is now known, Goolag, fired one of their employees for criticizing Goolag\u2019s politically correct employment practices, more and more news, all of it bad from the Goolag point of view, has been coming out.<\/p>\n
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The most recent assault on freedom by Goolag was the ousting from a think tank a man who made the mistake of criticizing Goolag. Here are the details from the New York Slimes<\/b>:<\/p>\n
In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June, an influential Washington think tank learned what can happen when a wealthy tech giant is criticized. <\/b><\/p>\n
The New America Foundation has received more than $21 million from Google; its parent company\u2019s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt; and his family\u2019s foundation since the think tank\u2019s founding in 1999. That money helped to establish New America as an elite voice in policy debates on the American left and helped Google shape those debates. <\/b><\/p>\n
But not long after one of New America\u2019s scholars posted a statement<\/a> on the think tank\u2019s website praising the European Union\u2019s penalty against Google, Mr. Schmidt, who had been chairman of New America until 2016, communicated his displeasure with the statement to the group\u2019s president, Anne-Marie Slaughter, according to the scholar. <\/b><\/p>\n I suspect Schmidt\u2019s displeasure took the form of, \u201cWe are not amused. Remove the offending remarks and exile that wrong thinking peon immediately!\u201d<\/p>\n The statement disappeared from New America\u2019s website, only to be reposted without explanation a few hours later. But word of Mr. Schmidt\u2019s displeasure rippled through New America, which employs more than 200 people, including dozens of researchers, writers and scholars, most of whom work in sleek Washington offices where the main conference room is called the \u201cEric Schmidt Ideas Lab.\u201d The episode left some people concerned that Google intended to discontinue funding, while others worried whether the think tank could truly be independent if it had to worry about offending its donors. <\/b><\/p>\n Those worries seemed to be substantiated a couple of days later, when Ms. Slaughter summoned the scholar who wrote the critical statement, Barry Lynn, to her office. He ran a New America initiative called Open Markets that has led a growing chorus of liberal criticism<\/a> of the market dominance of telecom and tech giants, including Google, which is now part of a larger corporate entity known as Alphabet, for which Mr. Schmidt serves as executive chairman. <\/b><\/p>\n Not just liberal groups, but a large political cross section are starting to see just how powerful these tech giants have become, and, at least for conservative groups, how quickly companies like Goolag will censor them.<\/p>\n Ms. Slaughter told Mr. Lynn that \u201cthe time has come for Open Markets and New America to part ways,\u201d according to an email from Ms. Slaughter to Mr. Lynn. The email suggested that the entire Open Markets team \u2014 nearly 10 full-time employees and unpaid fellows \u2014 would be exiled from New America. <\/b><\/p>\n While she asserted in the email, which was reviewed by The New York Times, that the decision was \u201cin no way based on the content of your work,\u201d Ms. Slaughter accused Mr. Lynn of \u201cimperiling the institution as a whole.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n In other words, Mr. Lynn\u2019s wrongthink remarks offended His Majesty, and the only solution was the virtual summery execution of Lynn and his staff.<\/p>\n Mr. Lynn, in an interview, charged that Ms. Slaughter caved to pressure from Mr. Schmidt and Google, and, in so doing, set the desires of a donor over the think tank\u2019s intellectual integrity. <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cGoogle is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings,\u201d Mr. Lynn said. \u201cPeople are so afraid of Google now.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n And this is why the antitrust laws were passed. Goolag and the other tech companies are now reaching the point of controlling communications in the United States and also the rest of the world. Goolag, of course, doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n Google rejected any suggestion that it played a role in New America\u2019s split with Open Markets.<\/b><\/p>\n Riva Sciuto, a Google spokeswoman, pointed out that the company supports a wide range of think tanks and other nonprofits focused on information access and internet regulation. \u201cWe don\u2019t agree with every group 100 percent of the time, and while we sometimes respectfully disagree, we respect each group\u2019s independence, personnel decisions and policy perspectives.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n One of the items people are starting to become aware of, is just how much Goolag is spending to, for lack of a better term, bribe congress and regulators to leave them alone.<\/p>\n Among the most effective \u2014 if little examined \u2014 tools in Google\u2019s public policy toolbox has been its funding of nonprofit groups from across the political spectrum. This year, it has donated to 170 such groups, according to Google\u2019s voluntary disclosures<\/a> on its website. <\/b><\/p>\n That\u2019s a lot of moola being laundered and handed out to those who can make life a bit difficult for Goolag.<\/p>\n Some tech lobbyists, think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June. <\/b><\/p>\n The European Union\u2019s decisions, to be blunt, are nothing less then an attempt to loot Goolag. The Brussels Bureaucrats running the European Union are, for the most part, communists and totalitarians who despise the free enterprise system and anyone who\u2019s been successful. However, Goolag\u2019s problems in the United States are a little bit different.<\/p>\n But Google\u2019s Washington alliances could be tested in the coming months. Google emerged as a flash point in the latest skirmish of the culture wars<\/a> this month after one of its male engineers posted a critique of the company\u2019s efforts to diversify. And its data collection continues fueling questions about its commitment to privacy. <\/b><\/p>\n It\u2019s not just Goolag that has a problem when it comes to hoovering up people\u2019s information. Facebook is another one that has been found to abuse it\u2019s \u201cpower\u201d and has been caught actively censoring anyone who doesn\u2019t toe the Progressive \u201cZuckerberg is GOD!\u201d line.<\/p>\n Then we have the cable companies that have been merging for the last 8+ years with a concurrent degradation in service. Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon have been centralizing for quite a while now and, in my opinion, reached the point where we need to start looking at breaking them up…again.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are simply fewer groups that are available to speak up about Google\u2019s activities that threaten online privacy,\u201d Marc Rotenberg, the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said. \u201cThe groups that should be speaking up aren\u2019t.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n Well, the \u201cGroups who should be speaking but have been bought off\u201d may not be, but a lot of very angry individuals are starting to. People are beginning to notice that their choices are being diminished, and that their ability to speak their minds is being actively suppressed. You just need to see what happens to the noted author, Michael Z. Williamson<\/b><\/a> on Facebook, or, as he refers to it, \u201cFecesbook.\u201d His account is constantly being suspended<\/a>, to the point that he\u2019s had to set up alternatives.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure how to break up Goolag or Faceplant, but I do know one way to deal with Comcrap. In Comcrap\u2019s case, the easiest way is to split the company in two. One side handles the actual physical plant, (Cables, networking equipment and other infrastructure), and the other would be the content side of the house.<\/p>\n Comcrap infrastructure company can handle the transmission of content as well as internet access, and they can sell bandwidth to any other content company. The content side of things can buy bandwidth from the infrastructure company and compete with other content companies for customers. This regulatory tool could be used on most of the other massive telecom companies. I think it\u2019s time for the DoJ to start looking into breaking things up again. The last time they did this was back when AT&T, also known as \u201cMa Bell\u201d was broken up. Will this happen? I don\u2019t know, but with the current crop of crooks in Congress, I doubt it.<\/p>\n Thatisall<\/p>\n ~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good day all. Since Google, or as it is now known, Goolag, fired one of their employees for criticizing Goolag\u2019s politically correct employment practices, more and more news, all of it bad from the Goolag point of view, has been … Continue reading ![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/89\/74\/83\/8974831735bf0c6cb1aaf8b354fea89d.jpg?resize=375%2C226&ssl=1\")
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