[Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

[Theo10011]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the
> extent that you're willing to cede government affairs to them?


Yes.

Why won't their interest align on the same side as everyone else ? The
issue is just SOPA and PIPA, and there are two sides. Google has taken its
stand publicly along with WMF and everyone else. What other interests can
they have?

Regards
Theo