Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
by niels_olson on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:34AM
(#13382452)
Matt Cutts now works for Defense Digital Service....
Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:56AM
(#13383200)
While on leave from Google. He's one of many Google employees working directly with our government.
As Peter Thiel put it, Google has more power in the Obama administration than Exxon had under Bush.
Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
by genericpseudo on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:14AM
(#13383388)
Question the source.
Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:31AM
(#13383568)
I just liked his comparison. We have plenty of better sources than Peter Thiel though.
Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
by niels_olson on Thursday January 12, 2017 @02:28PM
(#13385285)
Then please cite the better ones...
Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:49PM
(#13387237)
Tornadoboy's source is good, but primarily focuses on the amount of heavy communication between Google and government, so I'd prefer to add this source specifically, on the strong revolving door effect:
https://googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-revol...
Campaign for Accountability's page, above, has an interactive chart where you can see which employees, by name, moved between Google and the government during Obama's term, and what positions they held on each side. Beyond the "Read more" link is also a significant amount of specific detail about some of the more notable transitions.
Re:Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
by tornadoboy55 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:09PM
(#13386135)
>I've speculated for a long time that basically anything interesting Google says they're doing is essentially meant to be a jobs program to keep employees from leaving, PR for external stakeholders like investors, media, being attractive to potential employees, etc. They seem to have lots of formal ways to keep employees from leaving/close as well including investments off of Google's balance sheet (not GV or Google Capital) into ex-employee startups and just flat out paying people not to leave (which is the arrangement I'm guessing that Matt Cutts is under). It all seems very Microsoft of old.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12410662