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The Trump administration is "taking a look" at whether Google and its search engine should be regulated by the government, Larry Kudlow, President Trump's economic adviser, said Tuesday outside the White House.
"We'll let you know," Kudlow said. "We're taking a look at it."
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House's crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Kudlow's remark to reporters came hours after Trump fired off a series of predawn tweets complaining about Google search results for "Trump News."
[...] Google, in a statement, said its searches aren't politically biased: "When users type queries into the Google Search bar, our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in a matter of seconds. Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology.
"Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users' queries," Google said. "We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment."
The White House has not responded to requests for further comment.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by captain normal on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:43AM (3 children)
I think Trump does the best job of making himself look bad. He doesn't need any help.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:52AM (2 children)
I kind of agree. He makes himself look like an idiot pretty often. The rabid responses to that idiocy look even worse though. Even before Day One of Trump's presidency, various rabid idiots were joining "The Resistance". And, they actually take themselves seriously!
This nation has lived through the administrations of a number of witless wonders in the past. It will survive this one. It may not survive the irrational nonsense that MSM and the DNC are putting out there.
Is Trump a worse president than say . . . Ulysses S. Grant? It's kinda hard to say, at this point. So far, I'd say they were pretty close to equal. Both admire "success", for varying definitions of "success". Both are happy to put "successful" people in charge of things. It remains to be seen how badly people like Ajit Pai can screw things up.
Without the rabid irrationality of the left, the US will recover from the worst that Trump can do. Add in that irrationality, and anything might happen.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:42AM (1 child)
Ajit Pai did not screw things up... He did exactly what Trump and all the republicans paid off by cable monopolies wanted.
Not to mention the CFPB, which dropped lawsuits against payday lenders [cnn.com] that bought the right congress critters even though the evidence was gather and the case was years in the making; gutted student loan enforcement [npr.org]; and is also looking at gutting protections under the Military Lending Act [npr.org].
Trump treats our allies with little to no respect, while cozying up to dictators like Putin and Kim Jon-un. Even worse, he breaks treaties that were negotiated in good faith. (nafta, Iran, Trans-pacific) and has even threatened to not hold up our NATO obligations. What country is going to sign a treaty with us in good faith, if a new president can just ignore/break them on a whim?
We might be able to recover from some issues... but how in the hell will we ever be able to fix the last one?
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aim on Wednesday August 29 2018, @07:53AM
Certainly no-one in Europe (minus some populists), as long as Trump remains on his throne. Europe has had a hell of a lot of goodwill for the USofA since they were liberated from WWII. But now with a guy put in charge who has broken a lot of porcelain, has way less morals than your run-of-the-mill mafia godfather, and is in the footsteps of you-know-who (risking a Godwin here), that is over and out. You USians seriously need to clean up before you're shown any sort of respect again. Dubya was bad enough, but seriously, Trump?