Ask YC: Google and Obama

Google and Obama are both for network neutrality which is a great thing. They are both understand the power of the internet to connect people and share ideas and make a little money at the same time.

Google is also a major force in the content that is visible on the internet (simply because they are the first stop for people to find information). For example, they remove copyrighted material from Youtube, spam blogs from blogger and sites with high page ranks from search that only deliver the viewer the latest and greatest in malware. Doing this is great and provides a better service to all users. But I think it is fair to say Google controls quite a bit on content.

Eric Schmidt has been a supporter of Obama and was a possible choice to be the technology czar (http://bit.ly/8OkP).

I don't believe there will be some vast conspiracy between the Obama administration and Google to take over the world.

Questions to think about: 1. Is a relationship between someone in power and somebody with the ability to control media content (even if in a limited domain) a good thing? 2. Who regulates it? 3. And how do we keep these relationships transparent in the sense we are certain we are getting unfiltered content? 4. Is any of the above a reasonable concern? 5. While it's probably not a big concern today will it be more of a concern in the future?