Posted on 03/28/2015 3:48:35 PM PDT by xzins
A former Google officer is the president’s chief technology adviser. Google employees contributed more to President Obama’s re-election than did employees of any other company except Microsoft. Google lobbyists met with Obama White House officials 230 times. By comparison, lobbyists from rival Comcast have been admitted to the inner sanctum a mere 20 or so times in the same period.
Obama lieutenant David Plouffe boasts: “On Election Night [Schmidt] was in our boiler room in Chicago,” he told Bloomberg News, in a story that revealed that for the campaign Schmidt “helped recruit talent, choose technology and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina, on the finer points of leading a large organization.”
Favors beget favors. And hey, presto, the FTC, in 2012, ignored the recommendations of its own staffers, which accused Google of abusive trade practices for burying competitors in their search results and recommended a lawsuit.
Instead, the FTC dropped its inquiry. Google enjoys 67 percent market share, 83 percent in mobile. No biggie, declared the FTC.
Google lobbyists have been pushing for implementation of “net neutrality” regulations, particularly a “Title II” provision that would benefit Google. President Obama helpfully came out in support of the plan, including Title II, which was slightly embarrassing because Obama’s FCC chair, Tom Wheeler, had favored a different approach. Wheeler promptly reversed course and backed the Obama-Google plan.
Right before the FCC report was due, but before it was made public, the FCC pulled another odd reversal, removing 15 pages of policy Google apparently found out about but didn’t like.
It’s not like Google is ungrateful for all of this special attention. When the newly launched ObamaCare website was plagued by evil spirits, guess which company sent them?
Still, all of this is easily forgiven compared to what’s coming next: politically filtered information.
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I’m not sure the company whose employees ranked second in all of corporate America in campaign donations to Obama can be termed neutral. I’m not sure the nation’s most impartial arbiter is a guy who partied to the sounds of an Obama campaign robocall.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle!
Sorry, I lost control of myself there.
I don’t use google on my computer. I’ve not paid attention to my cell phone. I think I ‘yahoo’ but is that Google?
Google will determine what is the truth?? I didn’t realize it was Google behind the Net Neutrality push. I figured the Government would soon be deciding what the masses should know and will depress anything that doesn’t fall in line with ‘Government Truth’. Welcome to 1984 and Big Brother.
It not just Google. Yahoo; AOL; and other search engines are all in the tank for the secular leftists and Obama. Whether you like it or not the GLTB crowd has taken control over the web traffic of these search engines and they peddle their biases openly and flagrantly.
Nope. MSN Live Search, at last check.
Doesn’t matter. Enough people are waking up to the fact that the Degenerate Party is taking America down the tubes.
It would appear they want to take over the world if they could.
been saying “death to google” for years.
Google is the most evil company in the world right now. The Modern Stasi will be an outgrowth of Google.
This is what I see too. Kookifornia pretty much runs the Internet. They don't like us, and they want their views forced down our throats. They use their tech infrastructure to make it happen too.
“Kill all the techies first!”
Do we not all recall a google search for ‘failure’ giving us first and foremost -— GEORGE BUSH ???
Techies ! The new lawyers ??
In terms of search engines, Duck Duck Go does not track your searches. Go to duckduckgo.com and you can set it as your default search engine.
I hate anything google! I sent a gmail to a friend on the East Coast, when that storm was brewing. I told him to get a home generator. The next site I went to had ads for home generators. Google is a spy agency for it’s advertisers I will not google search! I use Ixquick. It’s very private. No cookies no ip tracking.
Bing Is Not Google.
“It not just Google. Yahoo; AOL; and other search engines are all in the tank for the secular leftists and Obama.”
Try this
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