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Look How The Google Speech Police Scold Me For Searching The Term ‘Illegal Alien’
The Federalist ^ | June 05, 2025 | Elle Purnell

Posted on 06/08/2025 1:55:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Google has found a new way to police the speech of its users: scolding them for typing factual terms into its search bar.

After a Justice Department lawsuit resulted in Texas ending in-state tuition for illegal aliens at state universities, I used Google to look up more details about the case. In response to the search “texas scholarships for illegal aliens,” the search engine’s AI overview slapped a patronizing warning at the top of the page, scolding me that “the term ‘illegal alien’ is considered pejorative and offensive.”

“It is more accurate and respectful to use terms like ‘undocumented students’ or ‘immigrant students,'” the note continued.

But a term like “immigrant students” is far less accurate, because the lawsuit applied only to immigrants who are in the United States illegally, not immigrants on student visas or green card holders.

I reached out to Google asking if it was company policy to scold users for the words they type into the search bar and pressure them to self-censor, and a Google representative emailed back but did not provide a response to my question. Nor would she point to any inaccuracy in the term, or explain why the search engine recommended a less accurate term.

If you search the term “illegal alien” on its own, Google delivers this definition: “a foreign national who is living without official authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen.” That definition is, of course, perfectly accurate.

Other dictionaries, however, are more Orwellian: The Dictionary.com definition of “illegal alien” has a cautionary note warning readers that the term is “Often Disparaging and Offensive.”

Further down the page, in a whopping 336-word “sensitive note,” the dictionary website explains...

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: google; illegalalien; internet; speechpolice; technotyranny

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1 posted on 06/08/2025 1:55:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have the AI results blocked.


2 posted on 06/08/2025 1:58:10 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
DuckDuckGo AI:

The term "illegal alien" refers to a person who enters or resides in a country without legal permission. However, recent guidelines suggest using "illegal" only to describe actions, not individuals, advocating for terms like "living in or entering a country illegally" instead.

3 posted on 06/08/2025 1:58:52 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like the Googlers need to take off their beer googles and have somebody FACT CHECK their “Facts”. They’re full of some of Biden’s malarkey.


4 posted on 06/08/2025 2:00:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemonRATS have replaced Hitler with "Doc" Jill's "Taco" slur to attack President Trump. Nice!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
That definition is, of course, perfectly accurate.

If you disregard the appalling grammar, you might be able to make that case.

5 posted on 06/08/2025 2:03:42 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: crusty old prospector

My first result on DuckDuckGo links to Wordnik, and says:

“noun US, derogatory. A person who is within the boundaries of a political state without that government’s authorization; a national of another country who has entered or stayed without permission.”

I didn’t receive ‘AI’ input.


6 posted on 06/08/2025 2:04:30 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The new thought of the left -

"The one that controls the vocabulary wins the argument"

an update from "He who defines the terms wins the debate"

7 posted on 06/08/2025 2:05:02 PM PDT by Dustoff45 (How to rank a political candidate, learn their position on Jesus, the unborn child and Israel)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The terms‘undocumented students’ or ‘immigrant students’ are dishonest, inaccurate and Orwellean.


8 posted on 06/08/2025 2:05:09 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The terms‘undocumented students’ or ‘immigrant students’ are dishonest, inaccurate and Orwellean.


9 posted on 06/08/2025 2:05:28 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Jamestown1630

It is their newest search called Assist. Maybe you have to download it


10 posted on 06/08/2025 2:09:55 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sometimes, AI software needs to be digitally told to ‘Shut Up & Sing!


11 posted on 06/08/2025 2:13:08 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ansel12

I have the AI results blocked.

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How do you block AI results? Thanks.


12 posted on 06/08/2025 2:13:15 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh... This is just getting started, it is in it’s infancy. I am going to say it again. AI is going to be used to create an alternate history, and re-engineer culture and society. How anyone could even think this is acceptable is absolutely beyond my comprehension. The risks outweigh the rewards a thousand fold...


13 posted on 06/08/2025 2:13:20 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: laplata

I use this extension.

‘Hide Google AI Overviews’


14 posted on 06/08/2025 2:14:53 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: crusty old prospector

I see it sometimes, and I see now that it’s there, down and to the side. But it’s not my first result and is easy to miss. (On other searches, ‘Assist’ has been at the very top...)


15 posted on 06/08/2025 2:15:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

A friend of mine told me to download a free app called Perplexity. It is an AI thang. It does OK.


16 posted on 06/08/2025 2:20:20 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DDG finds many distionaries that give the correct definition without the genuflecting DEI crap...

A spade is a spade...

Although I feel that a better description is “diseased migrant invader”...


17 posted on 06/08/2025 2:21:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: ansel12

Thanks.


18 posted on 06/08/2025 2:23:34 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: crusty old prospector

I like that search engine but it load slow for me for some reason


19 posted on 06/08/2025 2:24:13 PM PDT by roving
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder how “criminal invader” is perceived?


20 posted on 06/08/2025 2:27:55 PM PDT by BOBWADE (God Bless America)
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