Don’t Be Evil? Google Funding a Slew of Right-Wing Groups Including ALEC

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Google, the tech giant supposedly guided by its “don’t be evil” motto, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers.

Organizations that received “substantial” funding from Google for the first time over the past year include Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union (best known for its CPAC conference) and the political arm of the Heritage Foundation that led the charge to shut down the government over the Affordable Care Act: Heritage Action.

In 2013, Google also funded the corporate lobby group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, although that group is not listed as receiving “substantial” funding in the list published by Google.

US corporations are not required to publicly disclose their funding of political advocacy groups, and very few do so, but since at least 2010 Google has chosen to voluntarily release some limited details about grants it makes to US nonprofits. The published list from Google is not comprehensive, including only those groups that “receive the most substantial contributions from Google’s US Federal Public Policy and Government Affairs team.”

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/04/dont-be-evil-google-funding-a-slew-of-right-wing-groups

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1. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that "Don't be evil"........

motto in place BEFORE Google went public? When they became a major part of the capitalist system by selling shares on the stock exchange, the system took over. And the system is evil. This is why the individual actors under capitalism do not matter. The system pushes evil no matter WHAT the actors want or believe.