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13 December 2012

Don’t boycott Google because it’s evil. Boycott it because it’s terrible

Google's dodging taxes. But its worst crime is messing around with search results.

By Alex Hern

Google’s Eric Schmidt went all out yesterday, saying he was “very proud” of his company’s tax “structure”, and that “it’s called capitalism.”

Inevitably, this had led to calls for a boycott of Google until it starts to pay its fair share of corporation tax.

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