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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This is just propaganda

[spun]

Right wing conservative politicians are far, far more in bed with corporations than left wing politicians. Not that left wingers aren't sucking up to corporate interests, you can't be in politics in this country without giving the corporate masters at least a quickie handjob, but conservatives will do ANYTHING for their overlords.

So, they need to make a false equivalency, to show that everyone is just the same. "We do it, they do it, what are you going to do? That's life, that's politics, now shut up and vote for me. Unless you want a communist to win." Yeah, a communist corporatist who wants to take money from the rich and give it to the, uh, rich. They can't even keep the message straight. It depends on what suits them at the moment, look, they are socialists, oh wait, no they are in bed with Wall Street.

Oddly enough, this supposedly unbiased non profit,The National Legal and Policy Center, seems to have gone after about five times as many democrats as republicans. They were instrumental in sinking the Clintons' health care proposal in the nineties. George Soros, who is not a politician, is one of their favorite targets. I'm not sure who they serve, they are not completely right wing obviously, but I am pretty sure they serve someone with money and an agenda. Their list of targets does not look random at all, it stinks of political and financial motivation.

Re:This is just propaganda

[RightSaidFred99]

No no no. It's _secret_ money these "fat cat" Republicans get from their "corporate masters". You obviously aren't up on modern smug left wing kookery.

Right wing kooks thing the government is out to get them, left wing kooks thing the evil corporations are out to get them. Same idiocy, different set of assholes.

Re:This is just propaganda

[spun]

Hey Bonch, are you pissed that I derailed your little propaganda piece in the first few comments? Here's a bone, then: fuck google. Fuck them right in the ear. They are corporate scumbags just like all the others, out to make a buck at everyone else's expense.

Re:Errors in summary

[Lumpy]

He is a tea-party radical, they get the right to make shit up ans spew it all over as fact. did you not get the memo?

Re:Political Parties = "Which Industry"

[PietjeJantje]

Yes it is big news if Google has ties with the administration, which is a good thing as we should not want that, and because some corrupted Google employers and fans think that any such criticism can be simply disposed of by pointing to an entity everyone hates, and mod such redirections as "Insightful". I'll probably be the "Troll". I guess you excuse murder, because O.J. got away with it, or, less dramatic, speeding, because not everyone gets a ticket. I find it despicable you failed to say anything about the actual corporate ties, and are only interested in battling the criticism, with stuff which is irrelevant like mentioning O.J. in a murder trial. In the meantime, I wonder if you voted Biden, and thus the RIAA into government? That would make you the ultimate hypocrite. In any case, it gets confusing. Google says vote Democrats, which means vote RIAA, but we can't criticize, because the RIAA is in government? Uhhhhmm.. make up your mind.

Re:More Info on the NLPC, they are DIRTY

[Attila Dimedici]

If you knew any history of the Democratic Party, you would realize that in the 1960s there were many who espoused the ideals of the today's right in the Democratic Party at that time. As a matter of fact, many of the Democratic politicians from the 1960s would be too far to the right of today's Democrats to be electable.
So, because an organization supports principles that were originally espoused by a Democrat that today are only espoused by Republicans (you know, ethics in governmnet), they are deceptive for referencing said Democrat?

Re:Political Parties = "Which Industry"

[PietjeJantje]

I bet you're not going to cover those ties, which proves you a morally corrupted twat.