Google chairman Schmidt to testify to Senate

July 11, 2011 By Geoff Duncan

Google chairman Eric Schmidt will testify to a Senate sub committee on antitrust matters in September...potentially putting the "Don't be evil" Internet company in the hotseat.

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has agreed to testify to lawmakers before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee in September. The announcement comes in the wake of Google confirming it is the subject of a federal antitrust inquiry, even as the company works towards an antitrust settlement in the European Union and faces scrutiny in South Korea.

Schmidt, who until recently was Google’s chief executive, previously declined an invitation to testify to lawmakers. Google instead offered that its chief legal officer, David Drummond, would be happy to testify, but lawmakers insisted that top Google executives field questions about the company’s operations. Schmidt agreed, apparently stepping up for current Google CEO Larry Page.

The federal antitrust inquiry into Google currently centers on the company’s dominant position in the Internet search market, and whether the company is abusing that position to promote its own products and services and block out competitors.

Putting Schmidt in the Senate subcommittee hotseat could be a risky move for Google: Schmidt is known for making controversial public statements that seemingly contradict Google’s “don’t be evil” corporate motto. On a CNN program last year Schmidt suggested that anyone who wasn’t happy with Google Street View photographing their homes and places of business should “just move,” and on CNBC suggested that if people were engaging in any activities they didn’t want made available to the world online maybe “they shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Schmidt has also stated that Google aims to know what its users are thinking, through user profiling and monitoring locations and activities, and suggested perhaps people should get a free name change when they become adults so their irresponsible teenage online activities don’t follow them the rest of their lives.

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Peter Cao at 5:52pm 11th July 2011 Eric Schmidt get himself involved into crimes regards to people's lives, but he didn't pay for his crime. Now is the time he need to explain to the public. ================== References =================== References: See comments part in the following linkto find out what's going on in Eric Schmidt's ase http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technolo...? page=1#comments Here are some interesting discussions about Eric's crime in the murder case: http://tysurl.com/UsZz7b Here is an interesting link to the case where all crimes from Eric Schmidt's side started http://tysurl.com/mssgYn attention to the photo evidence in the context.
Peter_Cao_ at 5:51pm 11th July 2011 Eric Schmidt had involved himself in a case in Stanford which regards to the murdering of a U.S. citizen. Particularly, on 02/25/2007, Eric Schmidt had sent to me message to threaten my life with the mysterious death of a completely innocent Stanford student named May Zhou (http://www.mayzhou.com a girl of Taiwan origin, U.S. citizen, MIT alumnus and Stanford Ph.D. student), "You see May Zhou, if..., May Zhou is an Asian, police may not even find out who did it, what if it happened to you?" U.S. authorities investigation suggests Eric Schmidt's side had endangered my life multiple times during his fight with Stanford since then. There are still conspiracies behind the scene which no one dare clarify at authorities, and Eric Schmidt had a role in this plotted murder case about May Zhou. By the way, though Police initially ruled May Zhou's death as a suicide case, most people, including those who know May Zhou before her death, seriously doubt it. In Feburary 2011, I have informed police with key points, which had produced undeniable supporting evidence that May Zhou's case is a plotted murder but not suicide after authorities' investigation.