You read into it what you want but but it certainly wasn’t an anti Trump rant and she is 100 Percent correct when she states Google is a privately owned company and the government has no business interfering. Don’t like Google, don’t use them, don’t like Facebook, don’t use it. Do they try to manipulate what we see, sure seems so but that is none of the governments business. The choice to use them as a source is yours. That’s all she said.
Link to transcript.
What I wanted was Kim Komando would be noble and declare her show would continue to be apolitical. Instead, I was propagandized by her anti-Trump rant.
Do enemies, foreign or domestic, have First Amendment rights to propagandize us?
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech [from one’s lips to another’s ears]. It does not guarantee massive Globalist organizations a right to force their opinions on us.
Google collects more personal metadata on individuals that use Android phones and Google Maps than NSA does before anyone remembered that it did.
Unlike NSA, Google sells the data ... what data? When you began and stopped walking; when you set an alarm and for how long; when you entered and exited a vehicle; when you called and its duration; what sites you visited, duration an activity; which news items appear and which do not ... and so on all of which goes to the highest bidder.
You’re spot on , DR. Why peeps touch anything google is beyond me. I would think 63M US consumers with money to spend would get google/facebook’s attention.
Sure,unless the government is working WITH google and facebook to take out it’s political opposition ...that’s where some might have a issue?
The problem is those companies are so huge that it is difficult not to use them. There are no comparable companies to use.
So it may be necessary, just like ATT back in the day, to have the FCC declare them public utilities and regulate them as such.
google is a monopoly and now refuses to deal with the US military because their employees asked them not too. Instead google took their AI research to a chinese university which works for the chinese military. They’re a threat to the US and are trying to control political speech as are FB and YT and Twitter.
They all deserve the government to intervene and bust up the trusts or conservative speech will disappear from major sites and politicians on the right will not have access to the public.
google should be banned from doing business in the US till they stop doing business with the Chinese military,.
You cannot get search results without google. All of the other engines use their results.
Google, FB, Twitter, and all the rest use the equivalent of the public airwaves via the internet and all should be considered public utilities
You are wrong:
1. They are not private companies. They are publicly-traded corporations with stockholders, and so are subject to SEC oversight. (Have you ever heard of an IPO: Initial PUBLIC Offering?)
2. They are designated neutral platforms, as they are protected from liability by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as non-publishers. Engaging in editing of posts is acting as a publisher.
3. They publish terms of service to customers, and profess to enforce them impartially. They do not officially admit their biases. They thus commit consumer fraud.
4. They are answerable to stockholders for public actions that bring scandal that damage brand and lower value. Dramatic drops in value due to their polices are actionable.
Being private SECTOR does not equal being private COMPANY.