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Ten of these would&#x27;ve been the Google car&#x27;s fault. Given the mileage they&#x27;ve covered in 2015, and the number of accidents, they&#x27;re terrible drivers statistically... to the point that a human is the safety device.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opensecrets.org&#x2F;orgs&#x2F;toprecips.php?id=D000022008&amp;cycle=2014" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opensecrets.org&#x2F;orgs&#x2F;toprecips.php?id=D000022008&amp;...</a>
Congress, 2014 term. Many of the top recipients actually wrote letters on Congress letterhead begging the EU not to rule against Google, which is a fairly unprecedented action.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;04&#x2F;two-googlers-take-top-white-house-tech-jobs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;04&#x2F;two-googlers-take-top...</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.govexec.com&#x2F;management&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;white-houses-roster-starting-resemble-googles-list-former-employees&#x2F;92855&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.govexec.com&#x2F;management&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;white-houses-roste...</a>
Googlers take up some of the top technology positions in the White House, including &quot;Chief Technology Officer&quot;. Eric Schmidt and other high ranking Googlers also visit the White House nearly weekly.<p>Think they behaved themselves? Nope: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techpresident.com&#x2F;blog-entry&#x2F;white-house-deputy-cto-andrew-mclaughlin-slapped-gmailing-googlers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techpresident.com&#x2F;blog-entry&#x2F;white-house-deputy-cto-a...</a><p>In case you&#x27;re curious how Google&#x27;s using their White House positions: It&#x27;s to get money.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;265932-obama-pledges-nearly-4-billion-for-self-driving-cars" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;265932-obama-pledge...</a><p>And some more of our taxpayer dollars. While this article carefully avoids mentioning Chromebooks, they&#x27;re now the leading purchased portable computers in schools, they&#x27;re pictured in the header of this blog, and it&#x27;s written by their &quot;former&quot; Googler, who is the CTO:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;computer-science-all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;computer-science-...</a><p>That&#x27;s a lot of strong government ties, but are they worried about regulation? Well... for the longest time they controlled the US&#x27;s regulatory body too:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeed.com&#x2F;williamalden&#x2F;ftc-commissioner-appears-to-defend-google-via-subtweet#.khLL8KvYjK" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeed.com&#x2F;williamalden&#x2F;ftc-commissioner-appear...</a>
The FTC was basically run by a paid Google shill, Joshua Wright, for the last couple of years. (The FTC reopened their investigation against Google within a month of him stepping down last year.) His pre-FTC behavior wasn&#x27;t much on the ethical manner either: He was paid as a university professor to write &quot;academic studies&quot; supporting Google&#x27;s legal views.<p>One would wonder by the United States has been one of the slowest and most hesitant countries to regulate and pursue legal action against Google, until one does their research. Then it stops being much of a surprise at all.