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FBN’s Lou Dobbs on Google’s strong political influence and the four universities that contributed even more than Google to Obama’s 2008 campaign...
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The -- brands says he's worried about the future of the Internet.
Telling the guardian newspaper there are -- powerful forces that have lined up against the open Internet all sides of all around the world.
Bring calls the situations there.
And -- -- players who competitors apple and FaceBook -- Internet threats to freedom and innovation.
But it occurred to me the perhaps -- we just second here.
Brandon is -- -- right now apparently for the very same Internet freedoms.
That Google wants help -- The Chinese people.
Working with the Chinese Government.
And in this country Google has just been slapped with a 25000.
Dollar fine up.
For impeding a federal investigation.
Are.
Rupiah.
For Google's data collection views were it's a street view project are just what -- -- finally put that up the fine.
For obstructing if you will the government.
-- 25000.
Dollar.
Now I've got to believe.
That Sergey -- tonight.
Larry -- co-founder or just trembling in despair.
Because how -- -- company.
With two.
Almost 200.
I mean shipping and keep this going.
That's right.
200 bit but -- looked at the dollars.
Handle.
-- 22.
A 25000.
Dollar fine I mean that's laughable is that.
Could've been at Google has a little about political influence and power that it's are worried about in its own right.
According to the web -- open secrets.
Secrets dot org Google employees.
Through the company's -- by the way.
-- gave the Obama administration a little money.
Some 800.
Thousand dollars.
That's just.
In our -- amount of money in the 2008.
Campaign this is Google.
-- for mr.
Obama.
And just want.
-- -- And I made at the fifth largest source of funds to the campaign think about the fifth largest.
Now what really gets interesting here is.
That being the -- there were some other interest being competitors for the top rank.
And this may surprise issue to what's going on politics in this country a lot of people out.
Making much of it but -- this interest and I thought you might as well.
Here are some of the other top donors.
And the number one donor.
Is the university.
-- California.
It's number one.
And guess what after that number two.
-- but let's just go to the universe.
Here here -- the top or.
Of the top fifteen marketers.
Of four or university.
And one of them is the -- to California.
All of them -- Harvard.
Then Stamford.
Universities.
Amongst the top contributors.
To a presidential campaign.
In fact the number one donor in 2000 make you wonder where they'll be this year.
Well we're gonna do a lot more about the role.
Of liberal institutions.
In government -- influence.
Because it's something that most people are talking about and that's kind of what we like to do here is focus on some things that folks.
Don't give much emphasis but has profound impact.
And our society and certainly in our political system but we're going back to Sergey Brent brand himself.
And the folks at Google are giving -- considerable about a money along with co-founder Larry Page as we mentioned.
A -- given more than 30000 to the democratic national committee to separate 2500 dollar donations to the president six Google executives including CEO.
Co-founder Larry Page and executive chairman Eric -- all donating 25000 dollars a piece to the president's inaugural committee along.
It's a time honored thing to do in Washington.
The sort of gain influence or that powers that surgery brand worry so much about when it.
