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Re: Pennsylvania Consumer's First is kaput, yet they join? Minor funder Rob? Hah! Eric Schmidt gave you guys $1 million and got a board seat.
Google donates more than $450 million in free adwords through Google.org to 501(c)3's. How many of them are carrying the Goog's water? They admit that Google.org was created as a for-profit rather than a non-profit specifically so they could lobby on policy issues without all that messy non-profit disclosure silliness. They have never released who this money is going to... And not only that, as a condition of receiving the free adwords goodies, the recipients are contractually prevented from disclosing the terms and conditions of the goodies. So much for all that talk of transparency.
That would be the equivalent of cablecos donating $450 million in free air time on their stations for public policy groups to advertise in support of cable issues. I could only imagine the hew and cry from NAF and others if that were the case. |
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Minor funder Rob? Hah! Eric Schmidt gave you guys $1 million and got a board seat. If Google wants to give money, Google can give the money and it would give it to something better targeted than New America Foundation -- which mostly concerns itself with education, health care, foreign policy, and etc..
I admit I'm not sophisticated in the non-profit operations, including mine, but if Google was really pushing its NN agenda vs. Schmidt following his personal public policy interests, why dilute that support by being a general contributor to NAF? Why not donate to someone who is only working on tech and privacy issues?
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