Posted on 09/12/2018 8:14:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Someone leaked to Breitbart an hour-long video of an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the 2016 election. The video features Google’s co-founder, Sergei Brin, its CEO, Sundar Pichai, and numerous other high-ranking “Googlers” speaking in turn about the election’s tragic outcome. It is stunning.
All of the speakers express grief over Donald Trump’s election. All of the speakers assume that every Google employee is a Democrat and is stunned and horrified that Hillary Clinton–the worst and most corrupt presidential candidate in modern history–lost. There is much discussion about what Google can do to reverse the benighted world-wide tide exemplified by Brexit and Trump’s election. The insane doctrine of “white privilege” rears its head.
You really have to see it to believe it. Having suffered through the hour-long cri de cœur–OK, to be fair, there is a huge element of schadenfreude, too, and you will relish much of it–you probably will have several reactions: 1) These people may have certain valuable technical skills, but they aren’t very bright and are unusually lacking in self-awareness. 2) It is remarkable that they can achieve such an extraordinary monoculture in an organization with thousands of employees. It must require vigorous enforcement of right-think. 3) It is easy to see how these uniformly left-wing robots/people seamlessly transitioned into Resisting the duly elected Trump administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
OK. So, I did.
545m hits for black couples vs 2320m hits for white couples. Therefore, Google must be racist?
345m hits for gay couples vs 160m hits for straight couples. Therefore, Google must be gay?
Is the search engine corrupt?
Or is it simply a mirror of the larger society?
If the latter, it is doing its job. If the former, stockholders should sue.
L8r
Sergy is a piece of work ain’t he?
DC beltway is a black hole or vacuum opposing truth.
Learned a long time ago that Silicone Valley tech billionaires are a bit “eccentric” and that the success of their companies is due to their catching a wave on a technological tsunami and they more often succeed in spite of themselves as opposed to because of their managerial skills
Then, try exact same search using Google: "Defeat Devin Nunes |Join Team Janz | actblue.com" comes up first, followed by more anti-Nunes crap....
'Nuf said.
TRUMP was just as STRONG as Obama was! Hillary had no chance!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I realized that in 2008, glad that others have caught on to their plan. In 2008, when you entered Palin’s name, a drop box full of tops to pick from included such things as: Palin Idiot, Palin in Bikini, Palin kills wolves, etc. I’m guess that the first 99 stories about Palin that popped up every search, were negative all out attacks on her and her family.
Bump
Sorry, should have been more specific. Go to the “Images” tab... it isn’t about the number of hits returned.
Remember when google dropped "Don't be evil"? At least they admit that the motto was all a lie. From gizmodo
Wayback Machine on April 21, 2018:
“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably, and treating co-workers with courtesy and respect.
The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put “Don’t be evil” into practice. It’s built around the recognition that everything we do in connection with our work at Google will be, and should be, measured against the highest possible standards of ethical business conduct. We set the bar that high for practical as well as aspirational reasons: Our commitment to the highest standards helps us hire great people, build great products, and attract loyal users. Trust and mutual respect among employees and users are the foundation of our success, and they are something we need to earn every day.
So please do read the Code, and follow both its spirit and letter, always bearing in mind that each of us has a personal responsibility to incorporate, and to encourage other Googlers to incorporate, the principles of the Code into our work. And if you have a question or ever think that one of your fellow Googlers or the company as a whole may be falling short of our commitment, don’t be silent. We want – and need – to hear from you.
A couple weeks later:
And here’s the updated version, first archived by the Wayback Machine on May 4, 2018:
The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put Google’s values into practice. It’s built around the recognition that everything we do in connection with our work at Google will be, and should be, measured against the highest possible standards of ethical business conduct. We set the bar that high for practical as well as aspirational reasons: Our commitment to the highest standards helps us hire great people, build great products, and attract loyal users. Respect for our users, for the opportunity, and for each other are foundational to our success, and are something we need to support every day.
So please do read the Code and Google’s values, and follow both in spirit and letter, always bearing in mind that each of us has a personal responsibility to incorporate, and to encourage other Googlers to incorporate, the principles of the Code and values into our work. And if you have a question or ever think that one of your fellow Googlers or the company as a whole may be falling short of our commitment, don’t be silent. We want – and need – to hear from you.
There is no intellectual honestly in any quarter to force Google to file as an IRS 527.
Is there any move in this direction by anybody?
Don’t forget edu and entertainment.
...and donations/investments from other corporate intities campaign contributions?
. . . and what isn’t?
- government schools
- newspapers
- TV
- Wikipedia
- All too many churches
You know what is worse, and logically should be sued even harder? The Associated Press. The AP was sued under Sherman back in 1945, and lost before SCOTUS. Ironically that suit was by another wire service, but . . .According to Adam Smith
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776). . . you have to be naive as a babe to believe that all the major newspapers can have a continual virtual meeting (via the AP wire) for over a century and a half - and not about “merriment” but about business - without generating “a conspiracy against the public.”I put it to you that
The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors. And as we cannot always be satisfied merely with being admired, unless we can at the same time persuade ourselves that we are in some degree really worthy of admiration; so we cannot always be satisfied merely with being believed, unless we are at the same time conscious that we are really worthy of belief. As the desire of praise and that of praise-worthiness, though very much a-kin, are yet distinct and separate desires; so the desire of being believed and that of being worthy of belief, though very much a-kin too, are equally distinct and separate desires.. . . explains why the motives of journalists would differ from the public interest. Journalists don’t do things, they just insinuate that the people who do shoulda done better. And journalists, especially in the context of the AP, claim that they and their comrades are objective. The net result is cynicism directed at society - which is by default naiveté towards government. That is, the result is so-called “liberalism."The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Obviously someone isn’t a blurry eyed Democrat and did a real service by recording this meeting.
Hopefully this is the ammunition Trump needs to do something about this bias. A reverse fairness doctrine?
Been rattling my brain trying to figure out what Trump can or should do. Maybe a Google tax? Use the proceeds to promote conservative websites? That would make them go nuts.
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