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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Someone is seriously saying that funding 10/15 years previously is influencing on a totally separate set of topics in the future, tbh that is a ludicrous position for anyone to take.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also for full disclosure people should know that this is funded by an anti-Google lobbying group that has been around for a few years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Renata Aquino Ribeiro<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 July 2017 19:20<br>
<b>To:</b> Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm@eff.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> bestbits@lists.bestbits.net> < <bestbits@lists.bestbits.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [bestbits] Accountability group puts Google in same league as big oil and big tobacco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes it does.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unless they are transparent about it and clear about it not interfering with their research ethics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the public education system in developing countries it is quite common to see funding being misused. Researchers who get money from international organizations, even some national ones, using public universities to advance an agenda.
And yes, this can be sometimes an astroturfing exercise. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Which is why access and production of knowledge needs to be always transparent and public.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately most of internet policy has not waken up to this yet. I wonder if it ever will. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Em 13/07/2017 15:09, "Jeremy Malcolm" <<a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org">jmalcolm@eff.org</a>> escreveu:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">But here's an article putting the other side of the story:<br>
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<a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Cry-Foul-at-Their/240635" target="_blank">http://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Cry-Foul-at-Their/240635</a><br>
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We place Google Policy Fellows at EFF, too. Does that mean that whatever work they do for the rest of their careers is tainted by the few thousand they received to support their living expenses as an EFF fellow?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 13/7/17 3:21 am, parminder wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Google has spent millions funding academic research in the US and<span class="m-8149673231526419264apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news" target="_blank"><span style="color:#005689">Europe</span></a><span class="m-8149673231526419264apple-converted-space"> </span>to
try to influence public opinion and policymakers, a watchdog has claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Over the last decade, Google has funded research papers that appear to support the technology company’s business interests and defend against regulatory challenges such as antitrust and
anti-piracy, the US-based Campaign for Accountability (CfA) said<span class="m-8149673231526419264apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://campaignforaccountability.org/new-report-reveals-googles-extensive-financial-support-for-academia/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#005689">in
a report</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“Google uses its immense wealth and power to attempt to influence policymakers at every level,” said Daniel Stevens, CfA executive director.
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Academics were directly funded by Google in more than half of the cases and in the rest of the cases funded indirectly by groups or institutions supported by Google, the CfA said. Authors,
who were paid between $5,000 and $400,000 (£3,900-£310,000) by Google, did not disclose the source of their funding in 66% of all cases, and in 26% of those cases directly funded by Google, according to the report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Whenever Google’s bad behaviour is exposed, it invariably points the finger at someone else,” said Stevens. “Instead of deflecting blame, Google should address its record of academic astroturfing, which puts it in the same league as big
oil and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/tobacco-a-deadly-business" target="_blank">
big tobacco</a>.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:1rem;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/13/google-millions-academic-research-influence-opinion" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/13/google-millions-academic-research-influence-opinion</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">As we know Google has recently been fined $ 2.7 billion for anti-competitive practices by the EU regulator, which only means that in all countries that are too weak to take on google (or benefit from its profits,
meaning the US) Google remains in violation of competition (and many other) laws..... All this Google funded research and advocacy, of dont regulate the Internet (read, Internet companies), are playing a dangerous game, seriously compromising public interest.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">It is time we declare the honeymoon of civil society and academic love for digital global corporations over. They are today like big oil companies -- no doubt the latter provide what is still the main energy
resource that keeps our societies ticking but in the bargain they very often, and systemically, indulge in stuff that needs academics and NGOs to be watching against. It is pretty difficult to undertake such watching while taking considerable money from them.
It is a simple truism, but the digital sector tends to ignore it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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