<story><title>Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/charlie-hebdo-staff-publish-next-week-1m-print-run</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NotGoogle</author><text>Google is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; donating to Charlie Hebdo. A fund not managed by Google that Google has to pay into as a result of being fined by the French government is giving the money to help ensure the continuation of its publication.&lt;p&gt;From article: &amp;quot;The press innovation fund was set up in February 2013 to settle the dispute between Google and the French government over whether the internet group should pay to display news content in its search results. Financed but not managed by Google, that money will go to support the survival of the weekly.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/charlie-hebdo-staff-publish-next-week-1m-print-run</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themartorana</author><text>Bravo. In the face of continued pressure to make free speech a little less free here in the U.S. and around the world, it&amp;#x27;s on the U.S. and its citizens to protect free speech and&amp;#x2F;or show their support for those who have been silenced around the world.&lt;p&gt;If Google does that by donating some money, the message is still very clear and, at least from me, quite appreciated.&lt;p&gt;Freedom is never free, and human life, sadly, seems like the ongoing and unending price.</text></comment>