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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1- I am ok with them not getting the protections they operate under. They are publishers now.

2- That opens them to law suits for stepping on peoples rights.

3- They are a monopoly. LINK

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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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The Republican Party isn't exactly popular here

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The globalist GOP is not liked. YEP!

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The globalist GOP is not liked. YEP!

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What happens when Trump is gone? I'm very curious to see how people who love Trump will react

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Why wouldn't that populate first from searches?

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I've personally watched Google manipulate search results over time.

A few years ago I could search "Police Shootings Unarmed Blacks" - and on the FIRST PAGE there was an actual study, with statistics, that showed unarmed blacks WERE NOT being disproportionately killed by police at all.

BUT if you search those key words today, your top hits are liberal editorials like:
"There are huge racial disparities in how US police use force." - VOX
"Police killings have harmed mental health in black communities" - NY Times
"Tulsa officer acquitted of killing unarmed black man" - Newsweek
"Police brutality, misconduct, and shootings" - NY Times
"Why do US police keep killing unarmed black men" - BBC
"Police shootings of unarmed black men are a Canadian problem too" - CBC
"Video shows Sacremento police shooting unarmed black man" - NPR
"Black Americans shot dead by police are twice as likely to be unarmed." - Independent
"Police killings hit people of color hardest, study finds." - NBC

This goes on, several pages deep.
And I'm confident this is intentional.
Google wants to push this narrative that innocent, unarmed blacks are being slaughtered by police - even though that isn't what the data suggests.
These search results are meant to bias someone who is looking up information. To overwhelm them with so many headlines pushing the same agenda, they will begin to believe it.

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I don't want full government regulation of Google. I'd be fine with across-the-board legislation that does not allow internet search engine and social media websites and platforms to suppress the free dissemination of speech. Doesn't have to be about Google specifically.

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So you think the government would only use a little bit of power over these companies? Come on.

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Where is this a right? Not in the Constitution. Go step up on a stump a disseminate all you want to. Don't expect a private company to be forced to let you use their property to do that.

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Interesting....


So I purchase a "ghost town". Many listed here There are some people that still live in or around it.

Because I own the land, I decide to divert all water to my property, which surrounds Mrs Jones' home. It's my land and she should dig her own well.

Not only that, I build a big fence around my land. It traps her in.... but OH WELL.... It's my land. There are ways she can get out. Buy a Helicopter. Learn to fly. Build Some wings.... Better have a food supply drop lined up weekly too.

She might die, but it doesn't matter. It's my land, my mineral rights...etc etc etc. Now, if she is willing to do WHAT I DEMAND of her, then I MAY allow the water in and her a small road out. If she decides to bitch about things... I' will just cut her off.... again.


This is what you are saying. Google controls 85%. They are a monopoly.

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They are a monopoly.

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Nope

www.duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo
www.bing.com Bing
www.dogpile.com Dogpile

These are just 3 examples of other search engines you are free to use. You are choosing to use Google. That's not a monopoly. I just used Google to find other search engines.

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They all lobbied for protection against being liable for free speech on their platforms yet have turned around and have begun to censor the speech that they lobbied for protection using the guise of neutrality.

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This is what their biggest concern should be. Censor all you want...but when something goes uncensored and leads to actual damages....enjoy the suits. The “free speech” defense will be tough to use at that point.