Google Detractors Want to Hand Internet Over to European Union Control

The entire EU out to get Google battle can be framed in one sentence: Google is private in private industry, the EU bureaucracy is an unelected government

Canada Free Press

by Judi McLeod
8/31/2017

Excerpt:

There’s a new monster out on the trail patiently waiting for the unsuspecting to wander into its mouth before it snaps shut its vizor-like jaws from which there is no possible escape.

The monster, the most monolithic of them all, is set to gobble the Internet while piously claiming to save the masses from Google.

“Google’s attempt to shut down think tanks, journalists, and public interest advocates researching and writing about the dangers of concentrated private power must end.(CitizensAgainstMonopoly.org) “As an immense corporation, it’s wrong for Google to wield its vast financial and political power to try to silence the writers and researchers working to promote sensible antitrust enforcement. This kind of unethical behavior violates Google’s founding corporate code of conduct, “Don’t be evil.”

“Stop shutting down monopoly research now.”

Hello, CitizensAgainstMonopoly.org?!

“The dangers of concentrated private power”?

How about the dangers of the today-the-pond-tomorrow-the-world power of the greedy grasping European Union?!

“Our mission was to protect liberty and democracy from gigantic corporate monopolies. When we criticized Google for its monopoly practices, our program’s funding was cut.” (Citizens Against Monopoly.org)

“We’re continuing the fight—and we need you to join us.

“Is Google trying to censor journalists and researchers who fight dangerous monopolies?

“Sadly, the answer is: YES

“The Open Markets team for the last eight years has led the way in shining a light on America’s monopoly problem, and in helping leaders in both parties learn how to fight dangerous concentrations of power. This past June, our team released a statement of support for a European antitrust ruling against Google.

“Within days, Google flexed their financial power and got our entire team expelled from our think tank, the New America Foundation.”

So the Open Markets group, an initiative run under the New America Foundation, supported by 21 million Google dollars, is now Citizens Against Monopoly which wants people to sign their petition which, in effect, turns the power of the Internet over to the EU—the same EU which has already swallowed up most of Europe’s once proud sovereignty.

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