“Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp weighed into the debate over a proposed European Union settlement with Google Inc. — urging Brussels to throw out the settlement and calling Google a ‘platform for piracy,'” Tom Fairless reports for MarketWatch.
“In a letter to EU antitrust chief Joaquín Almunia on Sept. 8 — disclosed by the company Wednesday — News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson echoed other critics of Google’s search functions, saying it ‘systematically diverts users away from relevant sites to its own related sites for commercial reasons,'” Fairless reports. “In an open letter published in April, Axel Springer’s Chief Executive Matthias Doepfner argued that publishing houses were ‘afraid of Google’ and described the proposed antitrust settlement as ‘EU-sanctioned…protection money.'”
Fairless reports, “In his own letter, Mr. Thomson said the proposed settlement ‘won’t resolve existing problems, yet alone deal with fast-developing challenges that will inevitably become serious issues over coming years.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Martin” for the heads up.]
News Corp, bitching about someone else’s lack of integrity? Give us a break.
Exactly. Rupert is on a mission for ALL of us, including his detractors, to give us a break.
Just because it’s Rupert Murdoch saying, and obviously for his own benefit, doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
Global Gaggle Corruption.
Perhaps Murdoch could purchase Google and then shut it down…
Maybe Google could by NewsCrap and Faux and shut both of them down. Fox is the ministry of DISinfomration- a.k.a. the media arm of the Republican National Committee.
Unfair and Very Unbalanced.
We Distort, We Deride- Faux Newz.
This just emphasizes why Duck Duck Go, Blekko and others are valuable tools for real searches where you need real results and not just the ones that Google is paid to give to you.
I know we can dig far enough into any search engine results to find things, but Google causes me to waste time, so I hit their competition first.
You know what they say: even a broken clock is right twice a day.
So you a saying you agreed with Rush yesterday and News Corp today?
That would be twice in 24 hours, right….?
I do wish we could keep the political propaganda out of MDN. It doesn’t help that MDN themselves are boot lickers (at times) of same. (Watch this get censored).
So why pick me to announce that?
Did you bring it up to any on the left yesterday?
http://macdailynews.com/2014/09/17/do-not-enable-icloud-drive-when-you-upgrade-to-ios-8-wait-for-os-x-yosemite-public-release/
No, you didn’t.
And then there’s this-
“Setting aside crooked and destructive News Corp’s statements….”
You’re ball-less, Derek, and that’s why I scare you.
You’re so intelligent and persuasive. /s
Seeing as you’re possibly the #1 clueless, ventriloquist dummy for the neo-con-job around here, injecting your bullshit into randomly into entirely unrelated threads around MDN, of course I PICK on YOU.
Keep ruining MDN with your readings of the weekely Neo-Con-Job talking points and you can keep expecting my PICKING on YOU. I don’t like spam. I don’t like propagandists. I don’t like liars. You’re spewing all of the above.
We all have choices: duckduckgo.com, yahoo.com, bing.com. Just to mention the most famous.
Google is a platform for piracy! I totally agree! Google doesn’t care what you do as long as you click and make them money!
This is why I do not use ANY Google products. I do not want them reading my emails before me, reading my messages and serving up information to me that they get paid to send me. Just do not use any Google products and they become irrelevant which they already are.
First Rush, now Rupert.
Never ceases to amaze me these two men make more sense than the analysts and mainstream media COMBINED.
Keep up the great work, gents. 🙂
Actually, this was a coded message from Rupert to his editors: Watch for Android phones so you can hack into them!
Pot, meet kettle.
Setting aside crooked and destructive News Corp’s statements, this is a very legitimate issue. I don’t care for the ‘strange bed fellow’, but I do care about Google’s trickery and domination of the Internet.