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.”
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Tulsi is a demonrat, so of course she’s evil. But she’s a molehill of evil.
But google is a mountain of evil. A Mount Everest of evil.
And Tulsi happens to be right. Google and all the tech giants live and breathe censorship.
We need anti-trust laws and we need them now.
Dont keep your thoughts to yourself...
“Don’t be evil.”
The slogan is doubleplusgood!
I see what you did there...
The (not so) Invisible Hand sure is working hard to keep Tulsi from running a successful campaign.
That’s not Tulsi.
For some reason, Padma Lakshmi shows up often on her image search results.
Consider giving a dollar to campaign and if your polled about your favorite Democrat running for President, name her. The issue is another rigged nomination process.
“Unusual activity” for a Democrat is telling the truth. Tulsi blasted the record of Kamala Harris as AG and said Harris slept her way to every position she’s held. Democratic National Committee responded by dropping her from the Dem debates and Google blacklisted her.
An “algorithm” is nothing but a computer program. It works by taking a set of input, and then behaving in certain ways - as defined by its programmer - based on that data. Blaming it on the algorithm disguises the fact that the program only does what its programmer designed it to do - biases and all.
With Google, it is entirely conceivable that the programmers have the ability to control the algorithm’s input data and weighting (e.g. - how important any individual piece of data is to the whole). It’s clear from the complaints making it to the public square that the Google programmers and engineers have a decidedly leftist tilt - promoting certain viewpoints, and demoting, suppressing, or demonizing others.
It’s also entirely possible that Google doesn’t do this directly, but gives over some control of the data input and weightings to leftist organizations that would be more than happy to do this on their behalf - firm like Media Matters, for example.
The question is whether they have a monopoly, and whether they’re using that monopoly position to engage in abusive behavior (i.e. - antitrust violations).
“With her good looks.....”
She should be one of us not THEM. What happened to her?
Hubba hubba.
Hawaii.
Racist Misogynistic pigs
Looks more athletic that Irish Bob on a skateboard.
She should have sued for $500 million....
did they bother to contact her and see if all was in order?
google now in court with Prager and her time for the feds to break up the trust before they seriously influence the election
unfortunately, they dropped that line years ago... now they are evil
I wrote an original FR article about how Fallows gave the Hillary Clinton a draft copy of one of his articles before the Benghazi hearings (this was revealed in the Podesta Wikileaks stuff).
I challenged him on Twitter, and those tweets were suppressed, along with my article link to FR.
I have checked on Goolag for the article, and it's not visible, even with the article title directly typed in, in quotes.
Bing search brings it up immediately.
We must presume that Fallows contacted someone at Goolag for "a favor".
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