Google Grows Up. Now a Lobbying Powerhouse. Oh Yeah, Forgot, They are Now Buying Our Policy Frameworks as Well.
Below is my letter to the editors of the Washington Post regarding their Sunday, April 13th piece titled: Google’s Power Play. I congratulate you for going after it. We seem to be so enamored with this sexy American success story that seems to be lulling us into thinking all is good with the world and that Google is on our side. Think not. As a “techno utopian” with over 30 years experience with the Internet and telecom, I love tech for its power to innovate and solve real problems. Social problems. Environmental problems. And not necessarily for the creation of the newest iPhone. I am very concerned about Google’s amassing power and here is why. Google is not your traditional brick and mortar company with limited expansionary potential of the ‘physical’ kind. Google is in the vanguard of digital and big data expansion in the digital realm and as such, the combination of its search engine, its capacity to integrate and create algorithms at will, and its ability to