Critics Call For Probe Into Google Government Ties

bonch writes "The National Legal and Policy Center has written to the House Oversight Committee to investigate alleged ties between Google and the Obama administration, specifically with regards to the closure of an FTC probe into Google's Wi-Fi privacy breach, when the company admitted to having collected users' unencrypted information over the course of three years. The NLPC compares Google's relationship with the administration to that of Halliburton and cites the timing of a $30,000-a-head Democratic fundraiser at Google CEO Marissa Meyer's home less than a week before the FTC ended its inquiry, where Obama made a personal appearance, as well as the fact that US deputy chief technology officer Andrew McLaughlin is a former Google employee. The NLPC further alleges that the FTC is tougher on other companies, issuing fines to Twitter and Sears for their privacy violations while letting Google off the hook after the company promised to improve its privacy practices."

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Re:Just another non-profit, I'm sure

[RightSaidFred99]

"Some Obama fan"? This place is crawling with them. I'm surprised nobody's whipped out that ridiculous "wtf has obama done" website. That site makes me laugh. I mean printing a laundry list of shitty legislation in no context or with no mention of the actual impact it's had? Seriously?

Re:LIAR

[clarkkent09]

Ha, ha, good old ad hominem, just another way of admitting that you've lost the argument. Note the pathetically childish and uncivil behavior by the left towards the Tea Party candidates and Conservatives in general throughout the last election campaign. It worked out really well.

Re:This is just propaganda

[spun]

I love how you can claim a business is bound to the public it serves, but not a government. A business is bound by law to screw the customers out of every penny they can, or the stockholders can sue. But a corporation is not really bound to the stockholders, it is bound to the old boys club that runs the board and appoints the CEOs. Stockholders get screwed all the time, as we see in every economic crisis we go through, and yet, somehow, that old boys club gets bigger and bigger bonuses all the time.

Ah, you know what, I should thank you. It was very kind of you to let me dictate the terms of debate, and ever so kind of you to take a vehemently pro corporate stance. In case you didn't know, corporations and Wall Street are a teensy bit unpopular right now, and deservedly so.

I also simply love how schizophrenic the right wing has become. They simultaneously defend and attack "big business." Wall street, good! No, Wall Street, bad! I guess the Wall Street that those ebil libruls pal around with is bad, but the Wall Street that gives Americans their jobs and Republicans their donations, THAT is the very HEART AND SOUL of capitalism. Haha, wow, you guys slay me.

You can't even see the utter hypocrisy, can you?

Perhaps you should get control of your emotions and take a deep breath. Perhaps in your own mind you are dispassionate, but you come across as highly emotionally invested. You use emotionally charged language and insults to try to make your case. And then turn around and in an obviously insulting and derogatory fashion and tell your opponent that they are being emotional.

Do you have no capacity for introspection whatsoever? Are you really that blind to your own nature?

Re:This is just propaganda

[spun]

I know what they are. Sometimes, I like to troll trolls. I figure, if they are wasting their time on me, they won't be annoying someone less able to handle it.