Posted on 09/11/2017 7:25:24 AM PDT by Enchante
The key question I have, and which should a part of Robert Mueller’s mandate, is to what extent did the major search engines specially weight the search results during the campaign of 2016 in order to help Clinton and hurt Trump?
Granted, these are private commercial enterprises. But we regulate monopolies in the electric power industry. And the blind reliance of the general public on information generated by a few search engines borders on monopoly service. Maybe its is time to regulate information utilities such as Google, to at least archive (and make available for later review) their search algorithms.
In the context of a presidential election, we limit the contributions of individuals to the candidates campaigns. We prohibit corporate contributions to individual campaigns. When you look at he FEC records of donations by individuals who work for Google or Alphabet to campaigns in 2016, it is a very lopsided distribution favoring Hillary Clinton. Any contribution excess of the individual limits is a violation of the law. Any contribution by a corporation is a violation of the law. Any in-kind contribution of services by a corporation to a candidates campaign is a violation of the law. If Google weighted its algorithm to help Hillary and Hurt Trump, that would be a prohibited in kind corporate contribution.
All the brouhaha created by the democrats insinuation a connection between the Trump campaign and Russia feigns indignation over the ide, the very idea of a foreign influence over our campaigns. How dare they! Well, what about improper domestic or corporate influence over an election?
Excellent questions!
Excellent questions!
Yup, they do “special” Google logos for just about any b.s. under the sun, but for 9/11 they put a tiny black ribbon at the bottom where hardly anyone will even notice it.
AND, on other days the special logo is hot-linked to search results on whatever stupid topic of the day Google is honoring, but for 9/11 clicking on the black ribbon yields NOTHING.
F-you Google scum, F. all of you!
I concur.
There are a number of renewable energy news aggregators out there but the old google news search is one of the best ways of keeping up.
Google, as a company, is one the leaders in renewable energy, and are using 100% renewable energy.
In fact, Google is licensed by FERC to buy and sell electricity
ROFL.
DuckDuckGo is better.
Google is a #FakeSearchEngine. Pass it on.
Do a google search of republican states renewable energy
Or if you prefer, do a DuckDuckGo search of republican states renewable energy
I agree that Bing has an agenda as well. But even they aren’t so blatant as google.
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