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		DoctorNick on Aug 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Criticizing Google got me fired He was not an employee of Google. He was employed by a think tank which was ostensibly supposed to have independence from their funding sources.

SapphireSun on Aug 31, 2017 [–]

There's the con. There is no independence from funding sources unless you have so many that you can ignore losing one. Now if one were to turn that critical lens to the rest of the advertising funded media...

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