News Corp CEO just slammed Google for greed, censorship, corruption, and piracy
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Thomson accused "distributionists" like Google and Facebook of setting up a broken system.
"None of them actually create content, and they certainly have little intention of paying for it," he said. "But they do redistribute the content created by others - they would argue that such redistribution is a natural extension of their role as social networks. I would argue that much of the redistribution is an unnatural act."
Thomson believes these companies are helping themselves to the content that others create, "co-opting and corralling audiences and consciously devaluing brands." He contended that the words "Intellectual Property" don't appear in Google's alphabet, a reference to Google's new operating structure of the same name.
He went on to riff more on Alphabet: "A is for Avarice, B is for Bowdlerize, through to K for Kleptocracy, P for Piracy and Z for Zealotry."
Thomson cautioned that without a fair payment model in place, "well-resourced reporting will be ever more challenged."
He also threw a barb at LinkedIn, calling it a "pretender" that is chock full of spam.
Business Insider has reached out to Google for comment and will update this post when we hear back.
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