'We Are Afraid of Google': A German Media Mogul Tells It Like It Is

JMH · Apr 20, 2014

It's not like Google's impending world domination isn't already well-known or well-documented, as a cursory Google search clearly shows. But few prominent public figures have stood up and really ripped into the tech giant for holding a terrifying amount of power—not to its face, anyway. And not as candidly as Germany's largest publisher Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the German media empire Axel Springer, did earlier this week.

In an open letter to Eric Schmidt, Döpfner berated the company's global monopoly and, as a good newsman should, concisely articulated a sentiment most likely shared around the world.

"We are afraid of Google," he wrote.

'We Are Afraid of Google': A German Media Mogul Tells It Like It Is | Motherboard

Search

Search

'We Are Afraid of Google': A German Media Mogul Tells It Like It Is

JMH

Emeritus, Contributor