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[ NNSquad ] How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament
How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament
http://j.mp/yljGXF (Falkvinge)
"It went on and on. This was not a seminar on privacy at all. This was
Microsoft-funded Google-smearing, plain and simple, and I felt my
blood starting to boil. No free lunch was worth sitting down and
taking this kind of language designed to smear a competitor for
profit. I would not be a part of this. My name does not get to be
associated with this kind of drivel. So I made the strongest act of
disapproval conceivable in the European Parliament. I walked out on a
free luxury lunch."
...
"Seeing the only Member of European Parliament in the audience walked
out of the seminar in that strong a disapproval, one of their head
lobbyists rushed out after us trying to get us in a better mood. I was
furious, and since we no longer needed to politely observe silence in
the seminar room, I believe I made my impressions perfectly clear to
him at the time - that I considered it audacious that Microsoft, a
convicted monopolist, paid big money using a covert name to carpet
bomb allegations of monopolistic behavior against a competitor in this
manner - that the seminar had been thoroughly falsely advertised, and
that I would not have my name associated with any part of it."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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