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(Tulsi) Gabbard's lawsuit puts Google on the spot
Toledo Blade ^ | Sep 2 2019 | Toledo Blade

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; california; dicklessmorris; dickmorris; gabbard; google; goolag; hawaii; india; internet; jamaica; kamalaharris; kurdistan; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; rintintroll; technotyranny; tuligabbard; tulsi; tulsigabbard
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1 posted on 09/03/2019 1:28:00 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Google Pac writing a check to Tulsi shortly.


2 posted on 09/03/2019 1:32:52 PM PDT by Romulus
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flagged for “unusual activity”

Unusual activity = successfully pulling ahead of communists?


3 posted on 09/03/2019 1:38:38 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Romulus

With her good looks I’d agree with everything she says and tell her everything she wants to hear.


4 posted on 09/03/2019 1:39:31 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: rintintin

Damn that Google sure is one caring group!


5 posted on 09/03/2019 1:41:24 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: rintintin

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.


6 posted on 09/03/2019 1:42:23 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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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


7 posted on 09/03/2019 1:45:16 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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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


8 posted on 09/03/2019 1:47:27 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: rintintin

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.


9 posted on 09/03/2019 1:51:51 PM PDT by Freeborn
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To: Romulus

Interesting perspective. Thanks.


10 posted on 09/03/2019 1:54:31 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: george76

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.


11 posted on 09/03/2019 1:58:13 PM PDT by Lysandru
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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?


12 posted on 09/03/2019 1:58:38 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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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.


13 posted on 09/03/2019 2:00:45 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: rintintin

Woot! Go Tusli, Go!


14 posted on 09/03/2019 2:05:15 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Lysandru
Google employees are deliberately doing some of this.

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.

15 posted on 09/03/2019 2:08:04 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: rintintin

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.


16 posted on 09/03/2019 2:09:02 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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...she is seeking $50 million...

Dam, that would make a hell of a war chest.


17 posted on 09/03/2019 2:10:02 PM PDT by McGruff (The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.)
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To: rintintin

The enemy of my enemy becomes my friend. Goo luck to ya Tulsi. I’ll never vote for ya though.


18 posted on 09/03/2019 2:24:11 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: rintintin

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


19 posted on 09/03/2019 2:37:57 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Damn nice chest.


20 posted on 09/03/2019 2:41:08 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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