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Google Goes to Washington

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the red-white-and-click-through dept.

DIY News writes "Google has hired a lobbyist in Washington D.C. to influence the nation's laws governing the Internet, telecommunications and copyrights. Google sees a presence in Washington as a necessity as government becomes more involved in the Net's development. Among its efforts, the government has worked to shield private U.S. companies from demands by the United Nations and other countries for multilateral control of the Net."

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  1. Google for President by uberchicken · · Score: 1, Troll

    Is there nothing they can't do?

  2. Re:You used to be cool, Google. by kmmatthews · · Score: 1, Troll
    And thus you become one of the trolls you are attempting to forestall. Get a life, Slashdot is a bunch of individuals with differing opinions.

    _Of course_ the people that like $THING are prone to commenting in stories about $THING. Get over it.

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  3. Google Goes to Washington by patriciacurtis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah OK Microsoft is the Evil empire, but remember the Evil Empire brought you Home PC's Free Internet browsers, Human Friendly Operating systems etc.. and yeah they don't stick to Standards, but again they mostly do the standard and more as most of the little tricks that MS put in are then adopted by Open Source Developers etc.... But now its a different time and its Google time, google Free this, free that but not free of advertisements. Also remember that most Services on the T'Internet start free to gain the customer base. Lets see where google goes before we start proclaiming Google is good and MS is bad. don't get me wrong, I don't support MS i have just been the the business long enough to remember what it was like before Windows.

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  4. Re:They'll be lonely by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody will want to get drunk on the steps of the Capitol with them except the Kennedy's

    Your post got cut off...
    Except the Kennedy's what? The Kennedy's dog?

  5. Re:They'll be lonely by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, I'm sorry. The Kennedy's legacy.

    Who's The Kennedy?

  6. total control, but by the wrong people by Breizh · · Score: 0, Troll

    "the government has worked to shield private U.S. companies from demands by the United Nations and other countries for multilateral control of the Net."

    Of course, screw the rest of the world, the U.S. governement wants TOTAL control of the net.

    Now you can just imagine how this sort of thing makes the rest of the world simply LOVE the USA ...

  7. Shielding companies? that's nice? by Angostura · · Score: 0, Troll

    And when we say

    Among its efforts, the government has worked to shield private U.S. companies from demands by the United Nations and other countries for multilateral control of the Net."

    we mean, of course that U.S politicians have worked to maintain their unilateral control of an international infrastructure

  8. WE WE WE by imbaczek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Among its efforts, the government has worked to shield private U.S. companies from demands by the United Nations and other countries for multilateral control of the Net.

    And then you proceed to bitch about how the world hates you. Scary.