Posted on 09/03/2019 1:28:00 PM PDT by rintintin
Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has renewed the debate surrounding the outsized influence of tech companies in American politics with her lawsuit against Google.
Ms. Gabbard, a U.S. representative from Hawaii, has alleged that Google’s decision to temporarily suspend her advertising account after the June Democratic primary debates was tantamount to suppressing her candidacy. Her lawsuit accuses Google of violating her First Amendment rights, for which she is seeking $50 million and assurances that Google will not censor or restrict her account further.
Google has countered that Ms. Gabbard’s account was flagged for “unusual activity” and suspended “to prevent fraud and protect our customers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
Google Pac writing a check to Tulsi shortly.
flagged for “unusual activity”
Unusual activity = successfully pulling ahead of communists?
With her good looks I’d agree with everything she says and tell her everything she wants to hear.
Damn that Google sure is one caring group!
Google has received criticism for many years about malicious intent / censorship.
Google’s search engine algorithms ensure certain ideas bubble to the top of searches, while others sink to the bottom.
They’ve since corrected the issue but it used to be if you searched for “Gulag” on Duck-Duck-Go the first hit was Google
Google censors video exposing Google…Google-owned video platform YouTube took down a video from Project Veritas showing a senior employee at Goolag admit that Google plans to interfere in the next presidential election to stop Donald Trump.
The video, which is still available on the Project Veritas website featured undercover footage of a top Google employee, Jen Gennai, stating that the company shouldn’t be broken up because only they can prevent the “next Trump situation.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3759282/posts
I hope she takes the skin off of Google, not because I am a Gabbert fan, but because Google is a dirty operative hiding behind their money, influence, lies, and special loopholes.
Interesting perspective. Thanks.
Thank you! This is the sort of thing to bring up when one of your moderate friends wants to blame only the algorithms. Google employees are deliberately doing some of this.
Hmmmmm. If I had a bunch of money and wanted to give it to a politician how could I do it, legally.
Perhaps if I was sued and then settled I could give them some tax free money with no strings attached.
But nobody would do that would they?
Google is a de facto public utility (and I am a libertarian).
They should be tightly regulated or trust-busted.
(I prefer option #2.)
The newspaper editorial was extremely naive—dangerously so.
Woot! Go Tusli, Go!
Because Google allows it...perhaps even encourages it.
If an employee tilted some algorithms to the right, his butt would be out on the street by sundown.
On one hand, the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply.
On the other hand, they definitely jobbed her, and acted in a partisan manner - not at all as a neutral platform.
If Google had started out as a political organization, or politically oriented corporation, that would be one thing, but they gained their position by acting one way, then surreptitiously utilized monopolistic power to illegitimately affect elections (they’ve been doing that at least 7 years) - and even fomenting revolutions.
...she is seeking $50 million...
Dam, that would make a hell of a war chest.
The enemy of my enemy becomes my friend. Goo luck to ya Tulsi. I’ll never vote for ya though.
she has no first amendment rights against Google, a private firm
but I will believe Google’s explanation about preventing fraud (fraudulent fund raising by someone who can’t win the nomination or office)... when Google suspends Harris (who is hiding her ineligibility, and can’t take the office, either)
Frankly, I believe Googoo is one of the most flagrant cases for needed and long-overdue anti-trust breakup
Damn nice chest.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.