Google
hits back at News Corp’s claims that it is a platform for piracy
This article
is about Google’s reaction to what has been said in the form of Rachel
Whetstone (the former advisor to conservative leader Michael Howard who is now
Google’s senior vice president of global communications). Whetstone addresses
all the comments that Murdoch had made in his letter to the UN’s competition
commission. She also uses examples where The Sun has changed things using its
power to influence the audiences.
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Last
year Google removed 222m web pages that broke copyright rules, with an average
take down time of six hours.
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“Google
is also an industry leader in combating child sexual abuse,” she said. “And we
are committed to protecting our users’ security. It’s why we remove malware
from our search results and other products.”
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News
Corp UK title the Sun’s notorious “Up Yours Delors” front page from 1990, aimed
at the then European Commission president, with the accompanying comment:
“People probably have enough evidence to judge that one for themselves.”
I believe
both major institutions have become so powerful that this clash is almost a
struggle of total control for the media empire. Every institution wants to be
the biggest and most popular that have a large audience to control and use as
people seem to be dumbing down and believing everything they hear and are told.
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