{"id":3152,"date":"2008-01-08T09:34:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T09:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2008-01-08T09:34:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T09:34:27","slug":"the_search_part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"The Search Party: Google Squares off with its Capitol Hill Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ken Auletta<\/a>: <\/p>\n

In June, 2006, Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, went to Washington, D.C., hoping to create a little good will. Google was something of a Washington oddity then. Although it was a multibillion-dollar company, with enormous power, it had no political-action committee, and its Washington office had opened, in 2005, with a staff of one, in suburban Maryland. The visit, which was reported in the Washington Post, was hurried, and, in what was regarded by some as a snub, Brin failed to see some key people, including Senator Ted Stevens, of Alaska, who was then the chairman of the Commerce Committee and someone whose idea of the Internet appeared to belong to the analog era. (He once said that a staff member had sent him \u201can Internet.\u201d) Brin told me recently, \u201cBecause it was the last minute, we didn\u2019t schedule everything we wanted to.\u201d It probably didn\u2019t help that his outfit that day included a dark T-shirt, jeans, and silver mesh sneakers.
\nBrin did meet with Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, and they spoke about \u201cnetwork neutrality\u201d\u2014an effort that Google and other companies are making to insure that the telephone and cable companies that provide high-speed access to the Internet don\u2019t favor one Web site over another. Around the time of Brin\u2019s visit, an organization called Hands Off the Internet, financed in part by telecommunications companies, ran full-page newspaper advertisements in which it accused Google of wanting to create a monopoly and block \u201cnew innovation\u201d; one ad featured a grim photograph of a Google facility housing a sinister-looking \u201cmassive server farm.\u201d Brin recognized it as a warning. \u201cI certainly realized that we had to think about these things, and that people were going to misrepresent us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should be entitled to our representation in government.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fascinating to see Herb Kohl mentioned here. He’s not been active on many issues so it is surprising to see him pick Google (perhaps there’s something on the other side?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ken Auletta<\/a>: <\/p>\n

In June, 2006, Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, went to Washington, D.C., hoping to create a little good will. Google was something of a Washington oddity then. Although it was a multibillion-dollar company, with enormous power, it had no political-action committee, and its Washington office had opened, in 2005, with a staff of one, in suburban Maryland. The visit, which was reported in the Washington Post, was hurried, and, in what was regarded by some as a snub, Brin failed to see some key people, including Senator Ted Stevens, of Alaska, who was then the chairman of the Commerce Committee and someone whose idea of the Internet appeared to belong to the analog era. (He once said that a staff member had sent him \u201can Internet.\u201d) Brin told me recently, \u201cBecause it was the last minute, we didn\u2019t schedule everything we wanted to.\u201d It probably didn\u2019t help that his outfit that day included a dark T-shirt, jeans, and silver mesh sneakers.
\nBrin did meet with Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, and they spoke about \u201cnetwork neutrality\u201d\u2014an effort that Google and other companies are making to insure that the telephone and cable companies that provide high-speed access to the Internet don\u2019t favor one Web site over another. Around the time of Brin\u2019s visit, an organization called Hands Off the Internet, financed in part by telecommunications companies, ran full-page newspaper advertisements in which it accused Google of wanting to create a monopoly and block \u201cnew innovation\u201d; one ad featured a grim photograph of a Google facility housing a sinister-looking \u201cmassive server farm.\u201d Brin recognized it as a warning. \u201cI certainly realized that we had to think about these things, and that people were going to misrepresent us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should be entitled to our representation in government.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fascinating to see Herb Kohl mentioned here. He’s not been active on many issues so it is surprising to see him pick Google (perhaps there’s something on the other side?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}