A top Biden administration official responsible for advising the president on Big Tech policy spent years working in senior positions for Google and Google-backed groups.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, reacts to Sen. Eric Schmitt accusing the Biden administration of engaging in the 'largest speech censorship operation in recent history.'policy toward Big Tech companies
"Every time someone spends a bunch of time at a Big Tech company and then goes into the government, there are real questions about how impartial they will be," said one Democratic operative who spent years working on Capitol Hill."When you have a public official who worked for one of these companies and is now in a position to influence policy on them, there's reason to be skeptical.
From 2005 to 2012, Davidson was Google's director of public policy for the Americas. During that time, he was the tech giant's first policy staffer in D.C., where he oversaw the launch and expansion of Google's office in the nation's capital. Google also registered its first in-house federal lobbyists in this time and greatly expanded its lobbying operation.
In one exchange, Davidson, alerted McLaughlin to potential fallout from his remarks on net neutrality and promised to"tee up" an advocacy group to defend his comments and talk to reporters. The conversation ended when Davidson wrote:"Update on this — haven't seen anything run yet. We and a few OIC [the advocacy group] folks talked with reporters. It's possible that killed it, which is probably driving [AT&T] crazy.
After Google, Davidson worked from 2014 to 2018 as a senior staffer at the New America Foundation, which received $21 million from Google, its parent company's former executive chairman Eric Schmidt, and Schmidt's foundation.to move between senior government positions and high-level executive jobs in the private sector, especially in the tech industry.
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