Google's efforts to gain influence in Washington is sending money to some politicians who may make Internet civil liberty advocates cringe.
According to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission, Google's PAC (Google Inc. NetPAC), as of July 2012, the search giant has made almost half a million dollars in campaign contributions.
That's no chump change compared to other tech powerhouses. Microsoft's PAC doled out $24,000 in July, bringing its total campaign contributions for the year to $565,500. Yahoo's total campaign contributions for the year amount to $36,500. Oracle gave $174,250 this year.
On the lobbying front, Google still reigns: eBay spent $400,600 in the second quarter, and Amazon spent $690,000. They've even beat the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) so far, who spent $1,170,00 in lobbying to date.
This comes after reports show that alongside the July formation of a new tech lobbying group ("The Internet Association"), Google and Facebook spent $3.9 million and $960,000 on lobbying this year, respectively.
It is an election year, so that's got to be considered when contemplating the piles of... [Read more]
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