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::"Do something about monopolies. The whole business model of Silicon Valley is monopoly." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsnTwv8qtNA Thomas Frank]
=== Collecting illegally personal info from kids and should be fined ===
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/09/youtube-hit-complaint-child-advocacy-groups-which-say-illegally-targets-kids/482024002/: google services are for audiences of 13 years and older, but when it comes for money the rules suddenly changes]
== Google evading taxes ==
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Steuerschlupfloch-Google-Mutter-Alphabet-vermeidet-weiter-Steuern-in-Milliardenhoehe-3931187.html
=== Google Forced To Pay 13m of 6.4bn profits BUT Manages To Reduce The Amount ===
While we can clearly see such a deal is inadequate:
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It is hard to believe that £13m tax payment on $6.4bn turnover is an adequate tax bill. It feels more like a PR deal designed to counter the reputational damage created by Google failing to pay a fair share of tax on the profits it makes from its economic activity in the UK.
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From https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/23/google-paying-back-tax-only-a-beginning
We can then shortly see that the amount was even not completely true or paid by Google!
<blockquote>The company’s accounts show that the government was only able to claw back less than £100m in corporation tax from Google for the 2005-2014 period, and not the £130m the chancellor claimed.</blockquote>
From https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/04/google-uk-tax-deal-share-options-scheme.
== Google influencing policymakers and the law ==
=== Google spends millions on academic research to influence opinion, says watchdog ===
<blockquote>In its Google Academics Inc report, the CfA identified 329 research papers published between 2005 and 2017 on public policy that the company had funded. Such studies have been authored by academics and economists from some of the world’s leading institutions including Oxford, Edinburgh, Stanford, Harvard, MIT and the Berlin School of Economics.
Academics were directly funded by Google in more than half of the cases and in the rest of the cases funded indirectly by groups or institutions supported by Google, the CfA said. Authors, who were paid between $5,000 and $400,000 (£3,900-£310,000) by Google, did not disclose the source of their funding in 66% of all cases, and in 26% of those cases directly funded by Google, according to the report.</blockquote>
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/201
