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Google faces Antitrust suit filed by new social media company Gab.ai.
The legal action is the latest salvo in an escalating battle between right-leaning technologists and leaders against Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Google.
Gab alleges in the lawsuit that "Google deprives competitors, on a discriminatory basis, of access to the App Store, which an essential facility or resource."
"Google is the biggest threat to the free flow of information," Gab chief executive Andrew Torba said in a statement. "Gab started to fight against the big tech companies in the marketplace, and their monopolistic conduct has forced us to bring the fight to the courtroom."
Gab has published its court filing.
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:45AM (6 children)
Google executive Eric Schmidt worked for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Having the power of Google to influence people is a temptation that he can't resist.
At least a half dozen conservative web sites have an unusually low portion of their search referrals coming from Google. In other words, Google blacklists conservative web sites. When you search with Google, you are being denied to most relevant results in order to push an agenda. Sometimes those sites have what you seek, but it is hidden from you.
Eh, switch to duckduckgo maybe? Keep an eye on them too though.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:49AM (4 children)
Duckduckgo sucks big, fat donkey balls for relevancy of results. I'll stick with Yandex. The Russians don't give a shit what I search for since they can do fuck all about it even if they did. And they give pretty fair quality results.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 16 2017, @02:35AM (3 children)
Alright, so where do you find their search plugin for English? There are plugins and addons for Yandex all over the place, but I invariably get taken to the Russian version of their page. Which seems odd - the English version is a separate site?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 16 2017, @02:46AM (2 children)
Never mind - I'm using Palemoon, click the search tab, in the dropdown, select "find more search engines" which takes you to Palemoon site. Select Yandex, "add to search selections", or words to that effect. I now have a working Yandex search in English.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @07:37AM (1 child)
Thanks for making Russia stronger.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:11PM
And, thank YOU for being a douche!! Everyone needs a good douche now and then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:52PM
Google has been censoring left-wing websites too.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/04/goog-a04.html [wsws.org]
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/27/goog-j27.html [wsws.org]
The one pattern that fits has nothing to do with left or right as they are commonly known: the censorship is always in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. The sites that are being censored don't like Hamas, don't like ISIS, or just don't like censorship. The sites that aren't being censored are the ones promoting Linda Sarsour and CAIR, and their people can get away with doing or saying anything no matter how many people are offended.