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Good thing the tech industry can play the jobs game too. Surely Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a thousand other web companies have hired more people than the en

• herge 15y ago
  That is what I do not understand about how the SOPA debate has proceeded. Google is one of the fastest growing, most profitable and innovative companies in the world, and a clear example of american innovation and economic dynamism, and yet its name is slandered as "thieves" and as profiting from crime, by a U.S. congressman no less. If the same allegations were laid against any other industry in the United States like the automotive industry or Wall Street, there would be more indignation.
• mkr-hn 15y ago
  I tried to get numbers on the RIAA and MPAA. I didn't go deep enough to get specific employee counts from RIAA and MPAA companies, so most often I went a level up to parent companies. There's a lot of overlap. It also gets murky quick when you try to decide whether a job is destroyed, created, or moved. So this was a lot of wasted time because first we'd need to agree on a methodology for measuring this stuff, and that's a hard thing to do. MPAA The Walt Disney Company 156,000 Time Warner 32,000 General Electric 287,000 Comcast 102,000 News Corporation 51,000 Viacom 10,900 Sony 168,200 RIAA Big 4 Citigroup (!) 260,000 Vivendi 54,560 Total: 1,121,660