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Old 08-28-2018, 08:13 AM
 
Location: My House
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Yes. It is. They are free to start whatever web browsing portal they want, and make it skew conservative, I reckon.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:14 AM
 
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Wow the party of no regulation wants to regulate a private company's search engines but, hell, not anything that might make you safe. Jesus.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:18 AM
 
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What is a hard concept to grasp for most democrats is that they are being openly manipulated by the MSM and given news and commentary that their handlers want them to hear and see.

All opinions and news should be evenly disseminated, with the exception of calls for violence. The fact is that the left is the faction calling for violence and they are supported by the media, whereas all Trump is trying to do is enforce the laws on the books and stand by the constitution.

I have yet to hear a response to numerous questions I have raised to dems/liberals that directly answers what negative thing Trump has done that impacts their life personally. What statute, law, etc. has he passed or promoted that hurts you? Seems to all be about feelings and not much else - while you make more money, pay less taxes and live in a safer America.

And yes - conservative voices are being censored.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:19 AM
 
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lmao...Whoever doesn't realize that Google changes their algorithms due to politics is just well, dumb. If you search Trump on Google you get nothing but Left wing sites talking trash. Google plays politics all too often with their search algorithms.
I just Googled Trump news and the first things that came up were tweets by Trump. The first story was from Fox News. You should try it.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:19 AM
 
Location: Honolulu, HI
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Trump now claims Google - a bot - is showing only Bad News about him!


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...ry?id=57444232
Google is far from just a passive bot, they’ve been sued countless times for engineering it to display results that promote their products while suppressing results from their rivals.

Aren’t liberals the ones who believe Facebook Russian troll account bots influenced the election of the free world?

Oh the irony.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:20 AM
 
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He googled Trump News, and it came back mostly negative. No ****e Sherlock.
Except that it doesn't. Try it. You get his tweets and the first story is from Fox News. And then a bunch of stories from all over saying Trump is accusing Google of only linking to negative stories.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:20 AM
 
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What is a hard concept to grasp for most democrats is that they are being openly manipulated by the MSM and given news and commentary that their handlers want them to hear and see.

All opinions and news should be evenly disseminated, with the exception of calls for violence. The fact is that the left is the faction calling for violence and they are supported by the media, whereas all Trump is trying to do is enforce the laws on the books and stand by the constitution.

I have yet to hear a response to numerous questions I have raised to dems/liberals that directly answers what negative thing Trump has done that impacts their life personally. What statute, law, etc. has he passed or promoted that hurts you? Seems to all be about feelings and not much else - while you make more money, pay less taxes and live in a safer America.

And yes - conservative voices are being censored.
By Google? Come on.

And, tariffs are not a good thing. Trump's temper tantrums? Not a good thing.

I will not ignore any of that because some stock that was already performing well is still performing well.

And, safer? How? LOL.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:22 AM
 
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The guy has lost it - well, he never really had it in the first place.....

"The president tweeted early Tuesday morning that a search for “Trump News” shows almost all “bad” news stories, and he questioned whether this was legal.

“Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media,” Trump wrote.

“In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96 percent results on ‘Trump News’ are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...ry?id=57444232
I am guessing you don’t do much searching.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:22 AM
 
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Google is far from just a passive bot, they’ve been sued countless times for engineering it to display results that promote their products while surprising results from their rivals.

Aren’t liberals the ones who believe Facebook Russian troll accounts bots influence the election?
Of course Google paid search shows up first. They are in it to make money, just like everyone else. But, if you advertise there, you show up high in rankings. I think conservative money spends just like liberal money and not all "Silicon Valley types" are liberals.

Plenty of them are conservatives.

This whole idea Trump has is as stupid as most of his other ones.

Google doesn't control all the news outlets.
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Old 08-28-2018, 08:26 AM
 
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I don't know Google's search algorithm (if I did, I'd not waste my time talking to you people!). However, I do know from my usage of it, that Google does seem to "favor" what it considers to be trusted sites. What I mean is, if you google Wells Fargo, you won't get We11s Fargo at all. Where an unsuspecting user might go to We11s Fargo instead, which of course might look exactly like the official Wells Fargo website and enter in their information. Even if the SEO of We11s Fargo is as perfect as possible, there is likely some component of the algorithm that says "this isn't legit."

So, if Google is not showing far right conservative web pages, it might be because they simply aren't legit in the first place. Just because Trump says it is fake news, doesn't make it fake news.

Wasn't this whole Cohen thing fake news... until it wasn't? I wonder what else he has incorrectly declared as "fake news?" I can't believe this man is so full of himself that he thinks that negative coverage is fake.
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