Criticizing Google got me fired
This is the article in a nutshell. Google funds anti-monopoly think tank. Anti monopoly think tank writer praises the EU for fining Google for being anti competitive, Schmidt gets guy fired by threatening to withdraw funding. I know that&#x27;s just his side of the story, but it doesn&#x27;t look great for the think tank or the Google.<p>If you didn&#x27;t know it already, think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine.<p><i>Shortly after my group published a statement praising the European Union for fining Google for violating antitrust standards in June of this year, I was contacted by Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president of New America, who said that Eric Schmidt, Google’s parent company’s executive chairman, was furious about the statement. Schmidt, she said, was threatening to pull his name and substantial funding from New America in retaliation.</i>