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Fascinating conversation on the ability of Google to sway millions of votes based off search results. What is the remedy?

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February 14, 2020, 09:31 AM
stickman428
Fascinating conversation on the ability of Google to sway millions of votes based off search results. What is the remedy?
This is a VERY interesting video on Google’s ability to sway millions votes via their search results. Google’s parent company was Hillary’s largest donor.

Should tech companies be allowed to manipulate search results to help a candidate the company prefers?




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/yaLeahyu1hI


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February 14, 2020, 10:33 AM
BBMW
These are publicly facing private websites. I think they would have the same 1st amendment protections as newspapers (who have been openly biased in their editorializing essentially forever.)

The cure would be to start more conservatively based competition.
February 14, 2020, 10:45 AM
stickman428
Or maybe just building a search engine that pulled results based on relevancy rather than pushing any political ideology?


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The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance
February 14, 2020, 10:50 AM
BBMW
Feel free to do so.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
Or maybe just building a search engine that pulled results based on relevancy rather than pushing any political ideology?

February 14, 2020, 10:50 AM
stickman428
It does seem a bit interesting that the biggest political donor to a campaign used a company under its corporate umbrella (Google) to sway voters. While it is legal it certainly seems somewhat wrong.

When you look at the number of millions of voters they claim to be able to sway I can’t help but wonder how many close elections have democrats won due to their virtual mass media monopoly?


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The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance