Karen
03-19-2006, 12:25 AM
Dancing With Dictators: How Google and Other Corporate Media Behemoths Threaten the Survival of Democracy in America
...Since it has also already established itself as a company willing to dance with dictators--even very powerful foreign ones—it is reasonable to expect that Google will follow a similar path here in the States if this means sustaining its bottom line support from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the White House, and the Supreme Court. Corporate logic makes this inevitable. The hope that giant monopolistic corporations like Google will “do no evil” in the face of lost revenues is now just an empty sales pitch. What this spells for America is much the same as what it spells for the Chinese...
the story here: https://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3669
...Since it has also already established itself as a company willing to dance with dictators--even very powerful foreign ones—it is reasonable to expect that Google will follow a similar path here in the States if this means sustaining its bottom line support from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the White House, and the Supreme Court. Corporate logic makes this inevitable. The hope that giant monopolistic corporations like Google will “do no evil” in the face of lost revenues is now just an empty sales pitch. What this spells for America is much the same as what it spells for the Chinese...
the story here: https://mediachannel.org/blog/node/3669