The ‘Plot To Kill Google’ – AT&T, Microsoft lobbyists wage lobbying blitzkrieg

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20 Jan 2009


Google’s positions on things like network neutrality and wireless competition have made them a serious target for Comcast, Microsoft, AT&T and other lobbyists, who’ve been on a tear the last year trying to smear the search giant’s public image. Efforts have ranged from Comcast and Microsoft lobbyists’ use of corn farmers to attack Google on privacy issues — to telco-industry talking head Scott Cleland’s recent argument that Google was an Internet bandwidth freeloader that failed to contribute to Internet infrastructure. Wired News has an interesting read on Google’s 2008 crash course on lobbying, with their biggest critic (particularly on privacy issues) now being AT&T.
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