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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:38AM (6 children)
Those two statements are in direct logical conflict. You need to resolve that cognitive dissonance.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Informative) by jelizondo on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:05AM (5 children)
Sorry Buzzie, the contradiction exists only in your head. You strike me as a decent man even when sometimes (for fun?) you spew things that aren't quite civilized.
Consider that other countries, have different views, as I alleged before [soylentnews.org].
Would you condone as free speech someone calling people to kill all white males on sight?
Freedoms are not absolute, they are relative. Your rights end where my rights begin. Your rights should not include the right to call on people to kill me simply because you don't like my skin color or religious beliefs. Which is codified as a "hate crime" in France, Germany, the U.K. and yes, the good ol' U.S. of A.
The "Violent Interference with Federally Protected Rights, 18 U.S.C. § 245" [justice.gov] makes it clear that you can't use "free speech" to use force against people:
There are lawful limits to free speech and that is good. Darker skinned people have no right to incite violence against white folks and neither white people have a right to incite violence against dark skinned people. Substitute [catholics | muslims | mexicans | americans | fat | skinny | etc.] as needed.
You can argue that it is not evenly enforced and I will grant you that without question. But we should uphold the law lest we descend into lawlesness.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @10:51AM (4 children)
Actual calls for illegal acts are already illegal in the US. That is not what "hate speech" means here. "Hate speech" over here means anything not complimentary enough said about a group granted special privilege by the radical left or the questioning of that privilege. In a pinch, like say when they're losing an argument, the term can be stretched to mean "whatever you just said".
So, yeah, those two statements are in direct conflict in the world Subsentient and I live in.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:00PM (1 child)
I'm talking about actual hate speech. Not the "you're racist because you don't agree with me" hate speech.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:58PM
Right, the kind that's already illegal and warrants no further legislating.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:37PM (1 child)
What a load of crap., i guess your vacation was either too relaxing or not enough.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:02PM
Not sure if that's an argument or a troll but either way it's some epically weak shit. If it's a troll, you might try to type things that could possibly at the very least annoy me. If it's a rebuttal you failed utterly to prove your assertion or to even define it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.