Into a hundred thousand million pieces.
Google employees debated whether to bury conservative media outlets in the company’s search function as a response to President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, internal Google communications obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation reveal.
“Debated”? They say that like it’s a new thing. Google has been burying inconvenient results for years.
Yeah, I think if Hitler and his gang were still alive, they would be throwing up their hands and saying “we were wrong about every single tactic we picked”.
I was reading some blog post just now, some entry from 2012, about fascist Germany: “People technically owned their own businesses, but they lacked the right to run them as they see fit.”
That sounds suspiciously like race/gender based hiring quotas. Canada, the US, we are all way further down the path to fascism than anyone generally cares to admit. You can call it fascism, socialism, communism, whatever you want. We have at least 50% of the rules/regulations/policies that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and all the rest had or desired to have.
Government controlling the means of production. Government “owning” all businesses (like pipelines that cannot be built)…
“Google employees debated whether to bury conservative media outlets…” I call bullshyte! There was no debate about whether they should do it or not. That decision was unanimous. The only debate was how to do it.
goddammit “the market the market the market”
the all important MARKET according to the far right wing economist, one Milton Friedman.
so what is it dudes? ronald reagan style deregulation or, gubbamint regulation but only where ‘we’ want it?
you cannot have it both ways and not be a royal hypocrite.
pointing out the savings and loan debacle of reagan’s terms gets the right wing finger pointed elsewhere.
still more hypocrisy. “they all do it”.
“far right wing economist”. Lol.
O stfu already with this tired old autistic song. When Silicon Valley stop reeving corporate welfare and pay back what they took, they can start to pretend to be private business until then none of your libtardian claptrap matters.
tq for proving my point ! I win !!
You don’t know a thing of what Milton Friedman taught. He supported government intervention in breaking up self-serving monopolies. His reservation was that too often this is done to support crony politicians or businesses.
I knew Google was hard core left and anti-free speech when they eliminated “blogs” as a search choice. It’s been so much harder ever since to find backup for one’s arguments.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, they are all lying. So much for the much vaunted hippie work culture that Silicon Valley espoused over the last 20 years. Free food. Bring your dog to work. CEOs dressed like frat boys that crawled out of bed still in their clothes after a night of drinking (Zuckerberg anyone?). These are powerful companies that are void of even a gram of ethical behavior. The juveniles that started and run these companies simply won the high tech lottery, they are not individuals of any substance or depth at all.
I teach a course in Law and Ethics and I am going to start using all three of these companies as examples of what happens when sound ethical principles are ignored.
Quote from the article “Google has never manipulated its search results or modified any of its products to promote a particular political ideology. Our processes and policies do not allow for any manipulation of search results to promote political ideologies.”
I have been in high tech for 20+ years. This is such a lie from Google it is laughable. The manipulation was obvious in the last election.
This idea that a billion dollar company is neutral, when it is from top to bottom hard core left wing, is simply not credible.
Power corrupts. Including power in the marketplace. The temptation to use (abuse) your power to force people to do what you want is not lessened when what you want is for them to do whatever you like to think is good for them.