Politics | January 24, 2009 | 16 comments

Google becomes a political power player

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KevinFederline
Its employees supported Obama, and four Googlers served on his transition team. Now the Internet giant hopes to win support for network neutrality and expanding high-speed Internet access.
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  • Kepano
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      Kepano  
    • I hope they don't start sharing information about everyone, that would suck and I am sure they would just love to have more. Another infringment on censorship and more spying.

    • 3 years ago
  • AlbeeYap
  • Hoax_Productions
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      Hoax_Productions  
    • If google truly wants to be a successful company of the people, they need to let the people be. They need to stop censoring and respect our FIRST amendment RIGHTS.

    • 3 years ago
  • Iulian
  • TheColorYellow
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      TheColorYellow  
    • As I was saying, they are bigger than the government, because the raw data they have and the power they have to disseminate it is virtually unparalleled.

    • 3 years ago
  • Auberella
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      Auberella  
    • Google is un-American because it censors its searches and materials. Also, google has contracts with practicly every other big company- this isn't suprising.

    • 3 years ago
  • jyotti
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      jyotti  
    • Google is WaaaaaaaY over-valued, unless you consider all the additional download overhead, that comes with wepages that they advertise on. On a dial-up account, it is especially apparent. It's like .. a virus .. that permeates what used to be an information resource, as opossed to bloated sales venues.

      I've been on the "Net" since '86 at 300 baud, and have seen, and participated in it's evolution. Their search "alogrithyms" favor sites that foster growth of their bottom line, instead of intrinsic informational value.

      Anyone else remember the "good ole days" with Altavista .. Lycos .. Webcrawler .. Hotbot .. Excite? I hope that Carol Bartz can get Yahoo back on track. Admittedly, my prejudice is swayed towards Yahoo, for a couple of reasons .. firstly .. I use Yahoo! Messenger extensively, and secondly, having one company being soo dominant in such an important infuence on the global community, is probably not in everyones best interest.

      Back on thread .. what is "win support for network neutrality"? Really .. what the heck is that? Googlespeak?

    • 3 years ago
  • csmonut
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      csmonut  
    • jyotti:

      "Anyone else remember the "good ole days" with Altavista .. Lycos .. Webcrawler .. Hotbot .. Excite?"

      I do! Brings back memeories of just SO much information I, all of a sudden, had access to. It was great!

      Does remembering this mean I am getting old? :))

    • 3 years ago
  • csmonut
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      csmonut  
    • Wasn' it Google that was the first one to bow to sensorship from Asian and Middle Eastern Countries?
      Wasn't it Google that first turned over records of users to law enforcement entities?
      I don't use Google, for various reasons, and probably will not be using them at all.

    • 3 years ago
  • KevinFederline
  • paddock
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      paddock  
    • They sensor 911 truth , london n bali bombings when you want to find it.Prisonplanet.com is also being sensored for speakling the truth about inside jobs.

    • 3 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • Hoax_Productions
  • unimatrix0
  • ras_menelik
  • hydrokat
  • mutedmajority
  • Chodering
  • pinkerbelle
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      pinkerbelle  
    • mutedmajority:

      lol!

      they changed the google icon! and have those special pictures on those special days

      but I guess that's all so easy for those computer programmer ppl, forget the beta stage work on making the site look pretty...they make it look like they do work by doodling lol

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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