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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: 2, Disagree) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday November 04 2019, @03:50AM (8 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Monday November 04 2019, @03:50AM (#915576)

    Google itself confirms the politician's firm, by cooly stating that *they alone* are what people expect Congress to be.

    That alone should be scary enough to prompt an emergency tear-up of this threat of a company...

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  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday November 04 2019, @03:52AM

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Monday November 04 2019, @03:52AM (#915579)

    "fears", not "firm". Yeah autocorrect...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @04:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @04:31AM (#915597)

    Congress is old people. Social media influencers don't even need to be old enough to vote for those geezers.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday November 04 2019, @05:04AM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 04 2019, @05:04AM (#915607) Journal

    Google itself confirms the politician's firm fear

    [Citation needed] - note: "Project Veritas" (straight lying) or reclaimthenet.org (tabloid style, think dailyfail.uk "on a computer") do not qualify as citation sources.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:15AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:15AM (#915613)

      Undercover video is a primary source.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday November 04 2019, @05:26AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 04 2019, @05:26AM (#915615) Journal

        If release in full.

        When it's edited, it acts as Richelieu's "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

        So, again, "Project Veritas" is NOT credible as a source of citations.

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:49AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:49AM (#915622)

        If I selectively quote your sentence 'I suc coc' is a quote from a primary source.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:43AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:43AM (#915620)

      Remember when they 'caught' people selling baby parts then had to walk the whole thing back when it turned out they were COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT?

      Yeah....I remember that.