Google lobbies Congress for a ‘free’ internet
Fighting for the free Googleworld
Ken Young, vnunet.com 07 Oct 2005Google has opened a lobbying office in the US capital of Washington in a bid to extend its influence in America’s corridors of power.
The search firm claimed that the move is about protecting freedom on the internet.
“Our mission in Washington boils down to this: defend the internet as a free and open platform for information, communication and innovation,” Andrew McLaughlin, a senior policy counsel at Google, said on the company’s internal blog.
The lobbying office is likely to be busy. The US Congress is currently rewriting America’s telecoms laws, and Google has come under attack for its plans to copy text from millions of library books, and on issues of privacy relating to how it stores personal search data.
Others claim that Google’s PageRank indexing system should be made more public.
…continues at [www.vnunet.com] ; following what I wrote yesterday I vaguely feel I should support this, but I still need to think about it a bit more.
ObHumour comes from the attached GoogleAd that I received for the article:
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