Google severs ties with conservative group over climate change stance

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 6 months ago to Politics
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"Conservative Group" here is a think tank comprised of state level legislators.
Hardly wild-eyed Occupy types.

From ALEC's website - http://www.alec.org/about-alec/
"The American Legislative Exchange Council works to advance limited government, free markets and federalism at the state level through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators, members of the private sector and the general public."

So, my question is what of other individuals or groups who hold ALEC's same principles and who use Google's services?

My blog is hosted by Blogger which is owned by Google.
I adhere to some of ALEC's beliefs including that Anthropogenic "Global Cooling / Global Warming / Climate Change" is a hoax.

Should I be expecting my blog to be removed now?
SOURCE URL: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/la-pn-google-conservative-20140922-story.html


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  • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 6 months ago
    Google supports wind and solar energy as it has big investments in California to gain from the subsidies and from the restrictions on other energy sources.
    It is a heavy user of electrical power nearly all of which comes of course from fossil fuel.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 6 months ago
    I'm looking for ways to sever ties with Google. I already use IxQuick as my search engine (since Scroogle got shut down), and the system I'm trying to (slowly) build will run Linux, thus severing ties (somewhat) with Microsoft, as well.

    So, Google decides to sever ties with reality. That's fine. It makes it clearer how much of a crony capitalist Google is, and just how great a hoax the whole "climate change" con game is.

    What viable search engine alternatives are there to Bing and Google? What viable alternative to Youtube is there?
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    • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 6 months ago
      You may already know this, but to ease your conversion to Linux, I suggest using free VirtualBox to create a separate virtual machine within your main operating system, so you can either run Linux within windows until you are comfortable with Linux, or run windows within Linux for the application(s) that Linux falls short on.
      I run 2 VM's within W7: Linux and Win Xp. Both work reasonably well, albeit with some overhead: about 4% CPU load for each VM at idle on an i5 2-core laptop.
      What components do you plan to include in your build?
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 6 months ago
        Thanks for the suggestions; I run Virtualbox now, with ReactOS, LinuxMint and Win98, just for fooling around (I've run other OSes like Mac OSX in it before).

        I've run various flavors of Linux before, currently I like LinuxMint because it's not Ubuntu.

        Mostly the Linux box will be a network renderer, so my number one priority is Blender. One of the problems I have with Virtualbox is its lack of support for 3D acceleration.

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        • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 6 months ago
          Search engine- I use startpage.com
          Linux- I use PCLinuxOS, it is free but I make the requested $25pa contribution. The founder lives near Houston. There are several other good ones. I would not use Mint as the founder has weird political views.
          React- ha you are ahead of me, when I tried it I could not get it to work.
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          • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 6 months ago
            Weird political views how?
            I won't use Ubuntu because the word celebrates collectivism.

            I've run Damn Small Linux, which I liked, long ago. There was a beautiful distro I liked a lot once, called "DreamLinux".
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