re: I thought Republicans wanted less government in private business?

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Are you all really ok with Trump threatening to regulate a private business just because he is unhappy about his Google searches? Talk about the ultimate snowflake meltdown

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Example is what Google did to Warner. Google asked Warner if they could scrape his data and credit him. Warner declined, but Google did it anyway. The overall result was devastating:

In February 2016, Google started displaying a Featured Snippet for each of the 25,000 celebrities in the CelebrityNetWorth database, Warner said. He knew this because he added a few fake listings for friends who were not celebrities to see if they would pop up as featured answers, and they did. "Our traffic immediately crumbled," Warner said. "Comparing January 2016 (a full month where they had not yet scraped our content) to January 2017, our traffic is down 65 percent." Warner said he had to lay off half his staff.

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