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by frgtpsswrdlame 3219 days ago
1) Doesn't it seem weird that Google funded New America for years while the Open Markets group posted about other tech companies like Amazon and Uber? They had to know there was an anti-trust group there.

2) They didn't pull funding, they threatened to pull it. I might understand if they had pulled it, instead they leaned on New America, through board chair Eric Schmidt, in whatever the implicit version of quid pro quo is. I think that's part of what's upsetting people here.

Not that New America is blameless obviously.