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Sunlight Foundation: Microsoft, Google 'similar' to telecom giants in revolving door hires
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| Microsoft and Google have "spun the
| revolving door" to bring on 112 lobbyists
| who previously worked in government, the
| Sunlight Foundation said in a report
| released Friday.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/107047-sunlight-foundation-microsoft-google-similar-to-telecom-giants-in-revolving-door-hires
Analysis: Lobbyists with government backgrounds hired to help net neutrality
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| Turns out there are proportionally as many
| pro-net neutrality lobbyists being hired
| from government as those on the other sides,
| according to an analysis by the Sunlight
| Foundation.
|
| In a blog post today, Sunlight said Google
| and Microsoft, proponents of net neutrality
| rules for broadband providers, have hired
| 112 former government officials to lobby as
| Congress and the Federal Communications
| Commission have both pushed new broadband
| Internet policies.
|
| For the first three months of 2010,
| seventy-four percent of the lobbyists
| hired by both Google and Microsoft have
| previous experience in government,
| according to data obtained from the
| Center for Responsive Politics and
| lobbyist disclosure forms. This is a
| very similar number when compared to the
| percentage of former government
| officials hired to lobby for the top six
| telecommunications organizations.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/07/sunlight_pro-net_neutrality_in.html
Google, Microsoft Pitch Cloud Computing To Feds
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| In Washington on Thursday, government
| officials held a hearing to examining the
| benefits and risks of the federal
| governmentâs transition to cloud computing.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702265&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
"Buy our trap."
Recent:
.S. Targets Canada Over Copyright in Special 301 Report
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| The move is not unexpected, given recent comments from Vice President Joe
| Biden and U.S. Congressional panels as well as the demands from U.S. lobby
| groups.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3911/125/
Former RIAA Lawyer At DOJ Will Only Avoid RIAA Issues For A Year
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| Plenty of folks have noted that the Justice Department has been the landing
| place for a number of RIAA lawyers. Some have suggested not to get too worked
| up about this, given that the Obama administration's ethics rules supposedly
| forbade those lawyers from being involved in issues related to their former
| work.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090501/0209474714.shtml
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