{"id":151,"date":"2008-09-30T12:21:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/30\/official-google-blog-our-position-on-californias-no-on-8-campaign\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T23:32:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T05:32:29","slug":"official-google-blog-our-position-on-californias-no-on-8-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/30\/official-google-blog-our-position-on-californias-no-on-8-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Google decides it is a PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html\">Official Google Blog: Our position on California&#8217;s No on 8 campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google, you disappoint me.  And I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve ever actually said that before.  <\/p>\n<p>I fear that you are starting to channel your inner movie star.  I fear that you are starting to think that, because you are famous, that you need to make a political statement about your stance on political issues.  This disappoints me.  You aren&#8217;t a PAC.  You are an internet company.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to discuss what I think about the stance you have taken.  Whether you come down on the side of gay marriage, or the side against gay marriage isn&#8217;t relevant to this blog post.  I&#8217;m just disappointed that you felt that, as a company, you needed to choose a side in an issue that isn&#8217;t relevant to your business.<\/p>\n<p>Focus&#8230; Focus..  Eye on the prize, G..  Eye on the prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official Google Blog: Our position on California&#8217;s No on 8 campaign Google, you disappoint me. And I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve ever actually said that before. I fear that you are starting to channel your inner movie star. 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