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Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'
« on: August 31, 2017, 10:34:50 PM »
Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/31/google-new-america-foundation-criticism-job-barry-lynn

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Every second of every day Google processes over 40,000 search queries – that’s about 3.5bn questions a day or 1.2tn a year. But there’s one question that Google apparently doesn’t want answered: is Google a monopoly?

Barry Lynn, until this week a senior fellow at Washington thinktank the New America Foundation, has spent years studying the growing power of tech giants like Google and Facebook. He believes the answer is yes. And that opinion, he argues, has cost him his job.

This week Lynn and his team were ousted from New America after the New York Times published emails that suggested Google was unhappy with his research. The tech giant, along with executive chairman Eric Schmidt, have donated $21m to New America since 1999. Schmidt chaired the organisation for years and its main conference room is called the “Eric Schmidt Ideas Lab”.

Google is almost a near monopoly.
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Re: Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2017, 09:46:06 AM »
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".......media- savvy scholars who are trying to reinvent the way Washington thinks.”  ???

Washington Elites trying to bring about communism ?
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Re: Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2017, 10:21:40 AM »
Either Google is going full SJW, or is readily knuckling under to SJWs. With "monopoly" power comes the temptation to use that power abusively.

Edit: corrected a typo.
« Last Edit: September 01, 2017, 02:20:37 PM by SVPete »
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Re: Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2017, 10:52:51 AM »
Quote from: SVPete on September 01, 2017, 10:21:40 AM
Either Google is going full SJW, is is readily knuckling under to SJWs. With "monopoly" power comes the temptation to use that power abusively.

Google, FB and Twitter are all de-facto monopolies.

Time to break them apart like they did ALCOA and Ma Bell (and a few others).

The time is now.
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Re: Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2017, 07:32:28 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on September 01, 2017, 10:52:51 AM
Google, FB and Twitter are all de-facto monopolies.

Time to break them apart like they did ALCOA and Ma Bell (and a few others).

The time is now.

I have no intrinsic problem with that sort of natural monopoly - companies who through innovation and foresight create and dominate their segment of the marketplace. When they abuse that power it is appropriate for government to step in, though not necessarily as heavy-handedly as often happens.
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Re: Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'
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