Posted on 06/26/2019 4:58:02 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
The folks at Project Veritas have done God’s work one more time. – This time they have gotten the smoking gun on Google’s Orwellian efforts to not only control Americans’ political opinions, but to actually control their entire thought processes to favor the Democrat Party and its candidates. Here is the video in its entirety:
The video features two people: The first is Jen Gennai, head of Google’s “Responsible Innovation” team – an Orwellian name in and of itself, given what they actually do – bragging about how her team and indeed, the entire company are working to fix their search results in a way that will help “avoid another Trump situation” happening in the 2020 elections. The second is an anonymous whistle blower who who further describes the kinds of things Google has been doing in order to influence public opinion in the Democrat Party’s favor.
Here are some key quotes from Gennai [all emphasis is added]:
“The reason we launched our A.I. principles is because people were not putting that line in the sand, that they were not saying what’s fair and what’s equitable so we’re like, well we are a big company, we’re going to say it. The people who voted for the current president do not agree with our definition of fairness.”
“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”
“We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was — the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over — so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again. We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?”
Gennai, of course, responded exactly as all those who get caught red-handed by Project Veritas always do: by claiming Veritas “selectively edited” and “distorted” her comments, and took them “out of context.” In other words, she lied, which is what these people invariably do.
In a hearing yesterday afternoon on Capitol Hill, Texas Senator Ted Cruz grilled another executive from Google, a woman who did her best imitation of Sgt. Schulz from Hogan’s Heroes, claiming to “know nothing! nothing!” about literally everything Cruz asked her about, including the Veritas video and damaging internal Google documents that have recently been made public as well. Here’s that clip:
Now, I have previously discussed the likelihood that the Trump Administration and congress would be going after Google and other social media giants under the nation’s laws governing anti-trust and restraint of trade – yesterday’s senate hearing is a part of advancing that effort. These companies – all of them, not just Google – have long obviously been rigging their various algorithms to favor the political left in general and the Democrat Party specifically, because it is the political left in our country, and getting lefter all the time.
These have also long been discriminating against anyone who expresses conservative viewpoints on their platforms, outright banning many, and “shadow-banning” others so that only a small portion of their followers can actually see their content. The latter has been done repeatedly to me on both Twitter and Facebook.
This practice and bias, both of which are rampant across all big social media platforms and growing more ubiquitous over time, are clear violations of the law, violations that should threaten these companies’ very licences to remain in business. Senator Cruz points directly to this in his first comment on the video above:
“As you know, Google enjoys a special exemption under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The predicate for that immunity was that Google and other big tech media companies would be neutral public forums.”
The other aspect of what these companies are all doing is one that should come under review by the Federal Elections Commission and ultimately the courts. That is the obvious, blatant fact that their practice of discriminating against conservative political thought and intentionally attempting to brainwash their users to support Democrat political candidates without any real question at all amounts to a massive in-kind political contribution, one that should have to be reported under and governed by the federal campaign contribution laws.
Google’s now-documented practices alone have already been worth literally billions of dollars to the Democrat Party, with billions more in-kind value coming in from Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, et al. This is one of the largest abuses of the process in American history, and it simply must be addressed.
That is all.
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She's a citizen of Canada and is interfering in
the American electoral process. Why aren't the Feds paying
her a visit at Google? I assume she's working in the USA.
Does she have permission to work in the USA?
Is she even in the country legally?. Are her actions in
in violation of the terms of her visa?
I fail to see why any of this matters in a Nation of Men, The Public Masters are exempt from all those laws you peasant serf’s keep bringing up. Now if we lived in a Nation of Laws your petty accusations and evidence might mean something, but we Don’t. Get Over It
Sig Heil!
Den Google Collusion
Get the f’in army to drive a tank through their front door. Arrest everyone in the building. Hold them as enemies of the state. Put them in guantanamo while you search their hard drives. Then maybe they will get the point that they cannot treat americans this way and get away with it. The time for drastic action is well past.
I have noticed the same thing, particularly with Google. You have to sort through pages of crap to find what you were initially searching for.
I use it a lot. Excellent alternative!
"Charged" by whom?
That's the whole point of anti-trust break-ups, isn't it?
“As you know, Google enjoys a special exemption under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The predicate for that immunity was that Google and other big tech media companies would be neutral public forums.”
If a product's marketing is deceptive, it should be investigated.
If Google's contract is that, for the "price" of letting Google mine your data you get a service that let's you get superior search results, and then Google reneges on that by tilting those results in their favor to manipulate you, that's deceptive.
It's almost like old-time subliminal advertising where you think you are paying for a movie, but you don't know that frames of product were spliced into the film such that you were being manipulated into wanting the product.
In the Google case, you're being manipulated into thinking you're getting a true search result, when in fact you're being socially manipulated by those results.
It's subliminal, and it was made illegal in the past.
-PJ
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