{"id":380768,"date":"2018-10-13T06:59:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/google-does-not-worry-about-legislation-because-they-bought-congress\/"},"modified":"2018-10-13T06:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T05:59:30","slug":"google-does-not-worry-about-legislation-because-they-bought-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/google-does-not-worry-about-legislation-because-they-bought-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Does Not \u2018Worry About Legislation\u2019 Because They \u2018Bought\u2019 Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2018\/10\/11\/christie-lee-mcnally-google-does-not-worry-about-legislation-because-they-bought-congress\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christie-Lee McNally, executive director of Free Our Internet, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/freeourinternet.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">warned<\/a> of large technology companies\u2019 procurement of political influence via lobbying efforts in Washington, DC. She offered her remarks in a Thursday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free Our Internet is a non-profit organization describing itself as an opponent of the \u201ctech-left\u201d and its political censorship of \u201cconservative speech online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McNally said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They control over 90 percent of the internet, so they don\u2019t need to capitulate to us, they don\u2019t need to capitulate to the Senate [or] the president. They don\u2019t need to capitulate \u2026 because they\u2019ve bought them all. The amount they pay in lobbyists \u2014 if you look at FEC reports and how much they pay in lobbyists [and in] Washington, DC, they don\u2019t have to worry about legislation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cClearly they lied last month when they went up there,\u201d said McNally of Twitter and Facebook executives\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/twitter-ceo-says-company-isnt-biased-wants-healthy-debate\/\">denial<\/a> of political censorship across their digital platforms during testimony before congressional committees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN<\/strong>:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/512773323&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Open Secrets <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/lobby\/clientsum.php?id=D000022008&amp;year=2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">itemized<\/a> Google\u2019s lobbying spending via the technology company\u2019s FEC filings, with its most recent data coming from 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The top recipient of Google\u2019s lobbying spending in 2014 was the Podesta Group, founded by Clinton loyalist and founder of the Center for American Progress and its subsidiary ThinkProgress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2018\/10\/11\/christie-lee-mcnally-google-does-not-worry-about-legislation-because-they-bought-congress\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, October 12, 2018  at  5:30 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/christie-lee-mcnally-google-does-not-worry-about-legislation-because-they-bought-congress.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/christie-lee-mcnally-google-does-not-worry-about-legislation-because-they-bought-congress.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartOctober 12, 2018 Christie-Lee McNally, executive director of Free Our Internet, warned of large technology companies\u2019 procurement of political influence via lobbying efforts in Washington, DC. She offered her remarks in a Thursday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM\u2019s Breitbart News Daily. 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