{"id":18817,"date":"2025-05-14T19:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/labours-open-door-to-big-tech-leaves-critics-crying-foul\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:37:16","slug":"labours-open-door-to-big-tech-leaves-critics-crying-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/labours-open-door-to-big-tech-leaves-critics-crying-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour\u2019s open door to big tech leaves critics crying foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promises of tech-driven growth give big US firms access to Downing Street that leaves rivals in the cold<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/may\/14\/minister-accused-of-being-too-close-to-big-tech-after-analysis-of-meetings\">Minister accused of being too close to big tech after analysis of meetings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem with the UK, according to the former Google boss Eric Schmidt, is that it has \u201cso many ways that people can say no\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, for some critics of the Labour government, it has a glaring issue with saying yes: to big tech.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/14\/labours-open-door-to-big-tech-leaves-critics-crying-foul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e57eab55ec9fa946abd511f795c3882f970a890f\/210_0_2180_1745\/master\/2180.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9f65f489640b3bdadc61028a6d5788d5\" title=\"Labour\u2019s open door to big tech leaves critics crying foul\" \/>Promises of tech-driven growth give big US firms access to Downing Street that leaves rivals in the cold<br \/>\nMinister accused of being too close to big tech after analysis of meetings<br \/>\nThe problem with the UK, according to the former Google boss Eric Schmidt, is that it has \u201cso many ways that people can say no\u201d.<br \/>\nHowever, for some critics of the Labour government, it has a glaring issue with saying yes: to big tech. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promises of tech-driven growth give big US firms access to Downing Street that leaves rivals in the cold Minister accused of being too close to big tech after analysis of meetings The problem with the UK, according to the former Google boss Eric Schmidt, is that it has \u201cso many ways that people can say &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/labours-open-door-to-big-tech-leaves-critics-crying-foul\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Labour\u2019s open door to big tech leaves critics crying foul<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}