Posted on 07/25/2019 12:02:38 PM PDT by Haiku Guy
020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is suing Google over allegations that the tech giant violated her right to “free speech.”
The Democratic Hawaii Rep. alleged that Google censored her presidential campaign, according to a complaint filed Thursday. Google suspended her campaign’s advertising for several hours last month, The Hill reported, and Gabbard‘s complaint stated that it is a violation of free speech.
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“In the hours following the 1st debate, while millions of Americans searched for info about Tulsi, Google suspended her search ad account w/o explanation,” Gabbard tweeted Thursday. “It is vital to our democracy that big tech companies can’t affect the outcome of elections.”
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It is just more of the Google thumb-on-the-scale activity so familiar to Conservatives, but this time it is happening to a Democrat.
Gabbard is suing for $50 Million and an injunction to prevent Google from doing it again.
Apparently she is not Google’s favored candidate in the Democrat primaries.
Tulsi, grab the money, drop out and retire on a pineapple plantation. That’s your best case scenario.
Several things can affect a newsletter list’s deliverability rate. Sometimes Google *is* causing the problem. Sometimes there are problems with the list and/or with the email sending service (including incorrect/incomplete DNS records).
Suing on 1st Amendment grounds is the wrong legal tack to take. Google doesn’t have to respect her right to free speech, and no one can compel them to. Only the government has to respect that right.
She is suing on the theory that since the Techs have what amounts to monopoly power, and tend to collude, that they have a responsibility to carry all political ads without favor.
Of course, we on the Right know that this is not even remotely true.
Surely this was just an “Algorithm” mistake.
I don’t know that’s true in light of the court ruling that Trump can’t ban people from his social media account. The court held in essence the social media publisher was a public service for Trump’s “official” government statements and based it’s ruing on 1st Amendment grounds. There’s certainly a good argument to be made there.
Yeah, I think I’d have the lawyers hitting it from a campaign finance angle or laws about wrongfully influencing an election, something like that.
I forgot about that whole thing, that’s a really good thought.
I think Tulsi made attacks on Kamala and that sparked the Google response... I could be wrong and they could be wrong that Al Gore’s rhythm had something to do with this.
Presidential candidate and military veteran Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-
HI) is suing Google after the tech giant blocked her ads account
shortly after the first Democrat presidential debate, when Gabbard
became the most-searched-for candidate in the Democrat field.
Good luck to the lady
Via Gabbard’s legal complaint against Google:
At the height of Gabbard’s popularity among Internet searchers in the immediate hours after the debate ended, and in the thick of the critical post-debate period (when television viewers, radio listeners, newspaper read-ers, and millions of other Americans are discussing and searching for presidential candidates), Google suspended Tulsi’s Google Ads account without warning.
For hours, as millions of Americans searched Google for information about Tulsi, and as Tulsi was trying, through Google, to speak to them, her Google Ads account was arbitrarily and forcibly taken offline. Throughout this period, the Campaign worked frantically to gather more information about the suspension; to get through to someone at Google who could get the Account back online; and to understand and remedy the restraint that had been placed on Tulsi’s speech—at precisely the moment when everyone wanted to hear from her.
Please go to Tiger Claw's post at Tulsi Gabbard sues Google over censorship claims
bkmrk
Or the sender’s IP addresses getting blacklisted. It is almost impossible to get of a DNS Black List (DNSBL).
Google owns government Patents which ban free competition.
You bet they must respect the First Amendment,
or else relinquish their monopoly.
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