Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism
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Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism
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#2Can the Washington Post get away with significant original criticism or investigations of Amazon?
A medium sized think tank corrupted for a megacorp isn't as bad as the major government focused newspaper, the only newspaper bigger is the nytimes.
But I guess if the choice of jb owning wp or having wp go bankrupt and go away, I would choose wp being owned by jb. Journalism is important to keep around.
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#3Like I commented elsewhere - why is this evil? Because Google didn't want to pay its own critics? Open Markets is free, as they themselves admit, to continue their work elsewhere. They are not entitled to Google's support.
Re: Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism
#4Can the Washington Post get away with significant original criticism or investigations of Amazon? A medium sized think tank corrupted for a megacorp isn't as bad as the major government focused newspaper, the only newspaper bigger is the nytimes. But I guess if the choice of jb owning wp or having wp go bankrupt and go away, I would choose wp being owned by jb. Journalism is important to keep around.
Well, WaPo got away with this one just last month: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-to...
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#5Like I commented elsewhere - why is this evil? Because Google didn't want to pay its own critics? Open Markets is free, as they themselves admit, to continue their work elsewhere. They are not entitled to Google's support.
Because Google is big enough to make a big impact on the global conversation. By funding only groups supportive of them they can provide the illusion of unified support.
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#6Can the Washington Post get away with significant original criticism or investigations of Amazon? A medium sized think tank corrupted for a megacorp isn't as bad as the major government focused newspaper, the only newspaper bigger is the nytimes. But I guess if the choice of jb owning wp or having wp go bankrupt and go away, I would choose wp being owned by jb. Journalism is important to keep around.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/?query=amazon&utm_...
Lots of press, most of it good, couple harsher criticisms:
Why this group is trying to stop Amazon from buying Whole Foods https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/why-t...
Amazon under probe for business in Iran https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/amazon-under...
Is Amazon getting too big? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-to...
But yeah, overall hard to tell if this is genuine or just there to make WaPo appear less biased.
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#7Can the Washington Post get away with significant original criticism or investigations of Amazon? A medium sized think tank corrupted for a megacorp isn't as bad as the major government focused newspaper, the only newspaper bigger is the nytimes. But I guess if the choice of jb owning wp or having wp go bankrupt and go away, I would choose wp being owned by jb. Journalism is important to keep around.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/?query=amazon&utm_... Lots of press, most of it good, couple harsher criticisms: Why this group is trying to stop Amazon from buying Whole Foods https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/why-t... Amazon under probe for business in Iran https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/amazon-under... Is Amazon getting too big? https://www.washingtonpost.com/busines…
Jb would never police wp on a daily basis. It isn't worth his time and all but one is just simple reporting. There is only one oped that is fairly weak in it's take on Amazon's monopoly. None of these are real risks to his business.
Could the whole wp editorial board run a blind oped calling for the government to breakup Amazon's monopoly as the paper's official position?
As Amazon grows the threat of antitrust will probably get real and the center of that threat is Washington DC.
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#8Like I commented elsewhere - why is this evil? Because Google didn't want to pay its own critics? Open Markets is free, as they themselves admit, to continue their work elsewhere. They are not entitled to Google's support.
Because Google is big enough to make a big impact on the global conversation. By funding only groups supportive of them they can provide the illusion of unified support.
I'm curious if anyone has examples of large companies willfully funding organizations that are critical of them.
Google plays a huge role in our lives, but it is also a corporation that has a duty to its shareholders. The EU's decision has an impact on their profits that has the potential to affect their future revenue opportunities. I'd see an issue if Google was intentionally burying information from this group, but choosing not to fund them seems like a perfectly rational, fair thing to do.
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#9Like I commented elsewhere - why is this evil? Because Google didn't want to pay its own critics? Open Markets is free, as they themselves admit, to continue their work elsewhere. They are not entitled to Google's support.
Why is this evil? That is easy: Just image Google were as dominant as it is now - but a German (or even Chinese) company. I guess there were regulations, taxations and tariffs in about zero seconds. In case of China, even national security regulations.
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#10Uh-oh. People with real power are starting to turn on the Google-topia.