The obscure law that explains why Google backs climate deniers
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner from Environment | The Guardian on (#4SAEP)
Company wants to curry favour with conservatives to protect its 'section 230' legal immunity
When Eric Schmidt was asked on a radio show in 2014 why Google was supporting an ultra-conservative climate-denying pressure group in Washington, the then chairman of the internet giant offered an unequivocal response: it was wrong and Google was not going to do it again.
"The consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake and so we're trying to not do that in the future," Schmidt told NPR. People who opposed or questioned climate science were making the world "a much worse place", he added, and Google "should not be aligned with such people".
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