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Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence

posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 04 2019, @03:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the swaying-public-opinion dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Google exec suggests Elizabeth Warren is misguided and only big tech can prevent "the next Trump situation"

A new Project Veritas report includes an undercover video, leaked documents, and statements from a whistleblower that all paint a grim picture of Google's apparent lack of fairness, and its bias.

Google's now a very powerful company, and that's upsetting both sides in the US political divide.

As a consequence, many politicians are looking for ways to contain that power – either by applying antitrust or some other type of legislation against the company.

In the comments recorded in an undercover video, Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, cheerfully and not without a hint of hubris acknowledges that Google has been called to appear before Congress many times – but simply chose to ignore those invitations.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday November 04 2019, @03:24AM (5 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday November 04 2019, @03:24AM (#915563) Journal

    The next Trump situation could be prevented only if Google provides their own reliable and conscientious candidate(s) thorouhly selected from the CIA background. This is exactly what Russians did for themselves to prevent next Yeltsin situation. Most probably will never happen because of implacable warring factions in the deep state itself.

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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Monday November 04 2019, @03:34AM

    by legont (4179) on Monday November 04 2019, @03:34AM (#915565)

    Besides, it's Trump's job to prevent the next Google situation.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @03:55AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @03:55AM (#915582)

    The next "Trump situation" can be prevented if we vote all the nutcases out of Congress next year.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:00AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:00AM (#915627)

      And vote the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact IN.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 04 2019, @05:07AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 04 2019, @05:07AM (#915609) Journal

    The next Trump situation could be prevented only if ...

    ... people will start making use of their thinking abilities instead of trying to win the "blaring your mind" competition.

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