EXPOSED: Google, Obama caught doing it once a week Google and the White House manage to hook up more than the majority of married couples, having met up once a week for the past five years. That's the latest indicator of the powerful internet giant's worrying cosy relationship with the Obama administration, pulled from logs requested by the Wall Street Journal. The disclosure …
You don't meet that often unless one is giving constant updates to the other, on either instrumentation of an entity, or progress of a directed task.. and that some of that is required in a timely manner in order to adjust a running operation..
The question is how many of either of those are running, and for which recipient side...
Although if you drop this raw on the table, does Obama *really* have access to anything else of comparable power and expertise, even before you go darkside with it? Google does find answers..
(Which leads to the delicious thought... doesn't Obama trust the NSA?)
Oh, I dunno. They only wanted to make a shitload of cash.
I'll take corporate greed over megalomania any day when it comes to who pulls the levers of power.
As for not starting a war, when your endgame's world domination rather than profit you have to be a tad more subtle than that to win.
(Which leads to the delicious thought... doesn't Obama trust the NSA?)
You get an upvote for the correct usage of the verb "to think", but frankly the implications of the analysis gives me indigestion.
Here's why. Google's functional use of data is improper. The functions are not normalized. The NSA may use data in the same dodgy way, but the careerists at the NSA will eventually have to say "No, can't do it, won't work, could kill people ... etc." if only to protect their personal reputations.
Google will never say no.
You mean, it's thanks to Google that we got the reclassification under title II? Way cool, Google!
And the White House actually listens to acclaimed and respected experts like Vint Cerf, Turing Award recipient, president of the ACM, "father of the Internet", without whom we all wouldn't have a job? Thanks Obama!
@bratfox
"You mean, it's thanks to Google that we got the reclassification under title II? Way cool, Google!"
No, you got the _parts_ of title II that _Google_wanted_, but not complete and equitable regulations. Did you actually read the article?
You sound young by the language you use, which is good, as from my perspective, you will have to live with the results of your data being abused by the corporations that blind sight you. Enjoy your trinkets, you pay enough for them.
Who would you rather he listen to? Comcast, TWC, Verizon, AT&T? As others have mentioned, the real problem is the influence of the surveillance industrial complex as a whole, itself just a subset of the same old military industrial complex that has been warping our democracy for 3 generations. The main difference is that under the new rules they get to use thei own people. In the bad old days the targets were "merely" people overseas in 3rd world countries.
A politician taking policy advice from people who are knowledgeable about the subject matter, while certainly novel, is not exactly the crisis situation that you guys seem to think it is.
Flippancy aside, and as an outside observer*, I don't believe you blokes at El Reg have made a sufficiently compelling argument that corruption is the most likely explanation... not quite yet. Though a link between the white house and Google being made aware unpublished FCC proposals would, for my money, be the smoking gun.
* Living in .AU, I don't much care if Mr Obama is signing laws in exchange for "googly" suitcases of unmarked bills. And secondly, most Americans seem so partisan that the democrat voters would re-elect him anyhow - at least he's not named Bush, right? And the republican voters would chuck him out even if he cured cancer while creating a lasting peace in the middle east.
Seriously have any of you actually read the Net Neutrality ruling Vs the original proposal? It is much better than what Comcast and Verizon were doing and better than the original Net Neutrality proposal with fast lanes. It's not perfect, but it better and guess what? Just like every other law in the US, it can be modified at a later time. I personally am glad the out of touch administration is getting advise. I would rather it be Google then Comcast, Verizon and yes even Apple (a company company who tried to sue a competitor for making a square phone with round edges) Google is pushing the envelope of technology and innovation. We wouldn't be where we are today without them.
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