Newly-uncovered emails show the White House was closely tracking the outcome of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust probe of Google, with an official contacting Google’s lobbyist shortly before the agency’s decision to settle the case. via @GTP_Updates: White House Kept Close Tabs on FTC Google Antitrust Probe — Artist Rights Watch
In case you haven’t noticed, Google has been conducting an all out assault on powerful positions in the U.S. Government. Note that I say “the U.S. Government” and not “the Obama Administration” for a reason–it just happens, it is merely coincidental that President Obama is the occupant of the White House during Google’s rise to […]
Google likes to rely on the Communications Decency Act and the DMCA to defend themselves against ; in fact, a big part of Google’s business model is “getting away with it” by selling advertising on videos that their advertising customers clearly don’t want their brands tied to and that must violate the advertiser’s rights. Google […]
The wisest among you learn to read your portents well There’s no need to hurry because the road is all downhill to Hell… From Don’t Stand Still by The Original Snakeboy Firedoglake and Redstate have done a great job in focusing public attention on the scandal of Google’s profiting from human trafficking by means of Android […]
The network engineer Richard Bennett (who edits High Tech Forum among other things) has a very informative and nontechnical article in the New York Post explaining why the Internet will not be “broken” by rogue sites legislation. “SOPA simply requires ISPs to delist the Internet addresses of foreign sites found by a US court to […]
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