Google Launches Policy Blog
Internet giant Google launched a public policy blog on Monday, adding to the growing list of tech firms in our wonky little Web neighborhood. Verizon, Cisco and others have begun blogging in the past year or so.
Andrew McLaughlin, the company's director of public policy and government affairs, wrote that his team is "seeking to do public policy advocacy in a Googley way." "We want our users to be part of the effort, to know what we're saying and why, and to help us refine and improve our policy positions and advocacy strategies," he said.
Interestingly, the blog launched with two months worth of posts. Why? The site launched internally in April so "we could limber up our blogging muscles," McLaughlin said. "Now that we've gone public we thought it'd be fun to share our earlier internal posts." It looks like Jamie Brown, Pablo Chavez, Adam Kovacevich, and Richard Whitt will also pitch in.
In the weeks and months ahead, they will weigh in on issues like network neutrality, censorship, innovation regulation, immigration, R&D, national security and trade. The blog has enabled comments too, so the posts "will promote real conversation," McLaughlin said. We'll definitely be adding this site to our bookmarks!
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