New York City

Lieberman Wants Google To Let Users Flag 'Terrorist Content' On Blogging Platform

Ryan J. Reilly | November 22, 2011, 3:08PM

When he wasn't smoking pot with the New York Police Department's confidential informant or trying to manually cut off the tip of his penis, "lone wolf" terror suspect Jose Pimentel was running a jihadist website on Google's Blogger platform.

Now Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) wants Google to implement a policy explicitly banning terrorist material on their Blogger servers and set up a YouTube-style "flag" system to bring such material to Google's attention.

TPM obtained a letter sent by Lieberman, chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, to Google CEO Larry Page on Tuesday calling for him to make some changes to their policy.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Domestic Terrorist, FBI, Google, Joe Lieberman, Jose Pimentel, NYPD, New York City, New York Police Department

FCC

Google Pushes Back On Times' Report Of Verizon Deal

Eric Lach | August 5, 2010, 5:20PM

Google is disputing a New York Times report that the company is close to a private deal with Verizon in which Google could pay Verizon to ensure that its content received priority in reaching web users.

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Topics: FCC, Google, Net neutrality, TPMTech, Verizon

Darrell Issa

No Let Up: Darrell Issa's Tireless Quest For Scandal

Zachary Roth | April 23, 2010, 8:35AM

Remember the 1990s, when Newt Gingrich, Dan Burton and co. managed to create a steady stream of outrage by playing up every Clinton administration "scandal," no matter how minor? Or how about the last years of the Bush administration, when Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) seemed to function as a one-man investigative machine, making sure that no Bush administration wrong-doing went unexamined?

Today that role is being played by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight committee. But despite the steady stream of made-to-order conspiracy theories coming from Fox News and the Tea Party crowd, it's a much harder job. That's largely because Issa's party is in the minority, so he doesn't have the power to compel testimony or subpoena documents. And it's perhaps also because, though the Obama administration is far from squeaky clean, Issa just hasn't had the kind of material to work with that his predecessors did.

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Topics: ACORN, AIG, AmeriCorps, Barack Obama, Census, DNC , Darrell Issa, Fox News, Gerald Walpin, Goldman Sachs, Google, Henry Waxman, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Joe Sestak, Kevin Johnson, Mary Schapiro, Newt Gingrich, Republican National Committee, Securities and Exchange Commission, Tea Parties, Timothy Geithner

Google vs. China

The Google-China Showdown: Where Do Things Stand?

Justin Elliott | January 20, 2010, 3:56PM

Yesterday we took a look at the power dynamics in the showdown between Google and China, concluding that Google doesn't have a particularly strong bargaining position here.

Today, more than a week after Google's announcement that it would shut down Google.cn unless China allows it to stop censoring results, we thought it was a good time to take a look at where things stand.

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Topics: Baidu, David Drummond, Google, Google Android software, Google vs. China, Hillary Clinton, Ma Zhaoxu, Obama Administration

Google

Google vs. China: Is Google Screwed?

Justin Elliott | January 19, 2010, 2:49PM

Google's public ultimatum that it will halt operations in China unless it is allowed to stop censoring Google.cn got us wondering: what does a large multinational like Google have in the way of bargaining chips in its showdown with the Asian superpower?

According to a pair of experts we spoke to, the answer is: very few, if any. Let us explain:

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Topics: Baidu, China, David Drummond, Google, Google vs. China, Michael Cusumano, Ralph Cossa, Yahoo