<story><title>Google has contributed $17.5k to SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith</title><url>http://transparencydata.com/contributions/#Y29udHJpYnV0b3JfZnQ9R29vZ2xlJTIwSW5jJnJlY2lwaWVudF9mdD1MYW1hciUyMFNtaXRo</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rhapso</author><text>Google is too big, and supports too many things, to not in have in some way contributed money to just about everything. Relax and put down thy pitchfork, SOPA hurts them in many ways and they do not want it. If we want to make it a big PR fiasco like like we did for Go Daddy, whom i think the internet was just looking for an excuse to hurt, then we can but why? Bad target, not worth the effort, no efficacy. Right not, on this topic, Google is on our side for a change because SOPA scares them.&lt;p&gt;*edit s/to/too (and s/too/to) once I saw it, it drove me mad.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google has contributed $17.5k to SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith</title><url>http://transparencydata.com/contributions/#Y29udHJpYnV0b3JfZnQ9R29vZ2xlJTIwSW5jJnJlY2lwaWVudF9mdD1MYW1hciUyMFNtaXRo</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x006A</author><text>A better overview of donations to Lamar Smith
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00001811&amp;#38;cycle=2012&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N0000...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and a list of who Google gave money this cycle 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00428623&amp;#38;cycle=2012&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00428623&amp;#3...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lamar Smith received the most money according to that list.</text></comment>