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		ghrifter on Nov 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Open Letter to the FCC Ok, so you lose your job due to your commission expiring, or you get replaced by a new administration. but you cant be a lobbyist so what do you work for? other goverment jobs, or back to the private sector. what if we had a google exec become some internet government position, then went back to google? would there be this public outcry?

aeontech on Nov 22, 2017 [–]

Of course there would be a public outcry if during his government appointment he worked to weaken or dismiss regulation that impacts Google directly. It’s the textbook definition of conflict of interest.

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