The Guardian view on Google: overweening power | Editorial

An academic fired after criticising Google shows how Silicon Valley shapes our realityWhen Google received a record $2.7bn fine from the European Union in June for abusing its search engine monopoly to promote its shopping search service, a relatively minor member of an American thinktank, the New America Foundation, posted a short statement praising the regulator, and calling on the US to follow suit.The New America Foundation is intimately intertwined with the search firm. It has received more