Google Reaps Harvest of Obama Support

breitbart ^ | 19 Apr 2016 | MIKE FLYNN

[MarvinStinson]

Google has been one of Obama's strongest political backers. The symbiotic relationship has been good for both.

In 2012 Google employees donated $804,249 to Obama’s re-election effort. In 2008, Google employees contributed $817,855.

Google’s Eric Schmidt helped the Obama campaign recruit talent and coached the campaign manager.

Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that someone from Google attended a meeting at the White House an average of once a week throughout Obama’s tenure in office.

Recently Google has benefited by favorable decisions from federal agencies including the Federal Communications Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration )

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The FCC is handling its “set-top” box proceeding to ostensibly free TV viewers from restrictive contracts with cable providers to greatly benefit Google, giving Google a ton of new advertising data it currently lacks and giving Google access to other entities’ content on uniquely favorable terms.

Because of Google’s relationship with T-Mobile, depending on how the FCC handles its spectrum auction, the agency could also be set to give the company a big boost in that realm, too. Google itself will not participate in the auction, removing a potentially large bidder from the sale. Google has close ties with T-Mobile, however, and the wireless carrier will be bidding on the auction.

The FCC is also doing Google a big favor in pre-empting states from regulating Google Fiber. As Google’s own lawyer has noted, regulating Google under the federal Title II could give the company access to other companies’ hard infrastructure, such as telephone poles—a big boost to Google.

[HiTech RedNeck]

At some point in the future, maybe, google will become Go-Ogle.

[savagesusie]

LOL-— it already IS “Go-Ogle” for sure.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Be careful — the self righteous use it to go ogle how the world is so much worse than they are, or supposedly so.

[butlerweave]

I use DuckDuckGo they don’t track

[MarvinStinson]

and Further:

NHTSA is helping Google’s self-driving cars by interpreting ‘driver’ as Google’s on-board computer, making it easier for self-driving cars to get on the road.

Obama himself announced Google will be the first American Internet Service Provider let into Cuba.

Google will benefit from new “Digital Attaches” at U.S. Embassies

and from free trade agreement terms sought by the Obama administration.

This year the government ended an anti-trust investigation of Google’s search business. Breaking precedent, rather than a formal consent decree the FTC accepted voluntary changes from Google. An FTC Commissioner said the lack of a consent decree freed Google to renew anti-competitive practices .

[MarvinStinson]

Notice that Obama that in contrast to his treatment of Google, Obama has pursued a heavy, interventionist policy in almost every other industry sector.

This looks like Google has bought special favors to the disadvantage of competitors: high-tech crony capitalism.

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for posting this.

[MarvinStinson]

I have always said Google IS part of the US government.

[matthew fuller]

This is fron 2007:
http://www.fastcompany.com/60067/al-gores-100-million-makeover

Since his nonelection, Gore has become a millionaire many times over, bringing him, in financial terms, shoulder to shoulder with the C-suite denizens he used to hit up for campaign cash. In addition to the steady flow of six-figure speaking gigs, he has become an insider at two of the hottest companies on the planet: at Google, where he signed on as an adviser in 2001, pre-IPO (and received stock options now reportedly worth north of $30 million), and at Apple, where he joined the board in 2003 (and got stock options now valued at about $6 million). He enjoyed a big payday as vice chairman of an investment firm in L.A., and, more recently, started a cable-television company and an asset-management firm, both of which are becoming quiet forces in their fields.

[DoughtyOne]