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Opinion Laundering Thrives

Opinion Laundering Thrives 06/23/2004 10:39 AM

  • Tim Lambert: W hen Think Tanks Attack. Why are all these think tanks so down on Open Source? Well, the Small Business Survival Committee is concerned that using open source will expose small business to the risk of lawsuits. Citizens Against Government Waste is concerned that the Government might waste money on Open Source. Defenders of Property Rights is concerned that Open Source might be a threat to intellectual property rights. However, I was able to detect a common theme to all their criticism. They all seem to be funded by Microsoft.
  • This piece isn't absolute proof, but it's another layer of circumstantial evidence that Microsoft is continuing its campaign of what I've called "opinion laundering" to make a case against LInux and other free software. (See previous looks at this subject here, here and here, for example.) Microsoft is hardly alone in this activity, of course. Lambert's article looks into the tobacco archives and shows how major think tanks were paid by tobacco companies and took positions congruent with the tobacco interests' own views. The bigger problem is that we often don't know who is funding which think tank, and many won't tell us. Even the ones that do say they're getting some money from companies like Microsoft won't say how much. If the "contribution" is .001 percent of annual funding, that's trivial. If it's 50 percent, that's not trivial. But we are never told this relevant information. None of this is illegal, but it's definitely sleazy. We need laws, not that this Congress or administration will every touch the topic, to force think tanks to reveal the sources and amounts of their funding in amounts over, say, $500. That would let individuals continue to contribute in privacy, but would shine a needed light on the opinion laundering that is now so prevalent. In the meantime, when a think tank takes any position on just about anything, your first instinct should be to ask, "Did someone pay for that opinion?"




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