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Former Google Employee: ‘There Are Efforts to Demote Anything Non-PC from Search Results’
Breitbart ^ | 08/08/17 | Allum Bokhari

Posted on 08/09/2017 5:06:57 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Google was thrown into turmoil last night after the company fired James Damore, author of a manifesto defending viewpoint diversity and a fact-based approach to the alleged gender gap in tech. In exclusive interviews with Breitbart News, more Google employees are now speaking out in support of the manifesto.

Damore’s ten-page manifesto, which was met by an immediate backlash, described a climate of fear, in which employees who challenge prevailing leftist narratives at the company are faced with immediate threats to their career. Damore’s own experience appears to confirm this.

Breitbart News is exclusively publishing a series of interviews with current and former Google employees who contacted us in the wake of the manifesto’s publication.

The interview series, entitled “Rebels of Google,” will be published in full over the coming days. Because every employee who spoke to us fears for their job if their identities were made public, we have provided aliases in place of their real names.

In the first interview of the series, a Google employee (alias “Hal”) spoke of witch-hunts and intolerance at Google, as well as dysfunction at the company’s upper echelons.

Our second interview, published below, is the account of a former Google engineer (alias “Emmett”) who spent several years at the company. You can find a full transcript of our interview here.

We asked  Emmett if he could corroborate allegations that employees within Google’s Ad Sales department have expressed “a great deal of sympathy” with the Sleeping Giants campaign, which has sought to deny ad revenue to alternative media sites including Breitbart News and The Rebel Media.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censoring; censorship; damore; google; googlebias; groupthink; nonpc; questionauthority; search
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Some web site will eventually feel the void and Google down the road will be gone if they're stupid enough to try this.

I've read about the censoring, but still see a lot of conservative links in Google searchers. Hence, why I still use it.

Once I cannot find what I am looking for, then I will quit using them. It's that simple.

1 posted on 08/09/2017 5:06:57 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Agree. I remember a bumper sticker that I saw that says “Life is all fun and games until someone divides by zero”.

Google will soon learn something very similar if they don’t get this crap under control.


2 posted on 08/09/2017 5:10:45 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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I stopped using Google years ago because I don’t want them gathering my data.

They’re very good at it. It’s their business.


3 posted on 08/09/2017 5:14:00 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Enlightened1

Yes if a leftist company the will first “feel” the void and then “fill” the void;) You are correct on both accounts.


4 posted on 08/09/2017 5:17:07 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: MV=PY

Google knows more about you than the IRS does.


5 posted on 08/09/2017 5:20:46 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Enlightened1

How the hell can any serious researcher use Google if it is a mere clone of Headline News? That site has been trashed by left wing hysteria


6 posted on 08/09/2017 5:24:50 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Enlightened1

The biggest impact I’ve seen in Youtube, which Google owns.
They allow many people to still upload content, but turned off ads if their far left “trusted flaggers” say this is objectionable or the subjects are considered “controversial”.
They throw up hurdles to a lot of conservative content being seen like rating it as 18-only, so content doesn’t show up unless you’re logged in and over 18. Now teens and casual searchers don’t see it.
The most egregious is their recent plan to use a redirect. If your content is considered not politically correct, they’ll let you upload the video without payment and without social media functionality AND put a re-education video in front of it.
This is what Google is doing to their biggest social media site in the name of trust and safety. This is what they believe is necessary, appropriate and moral.


7 posted on 08/09/2017 5:26:12 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Enlightened1

That’s the beauty of a capitalist economy.

A consumer can fire a business that doesn’t provide the product/service they want and hire one that does.


8 posted on 08/09/2017 5:32:01 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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Google does censor results in China.

They have the technology, it’s just when and where they choose to apply it.


9 posted on 08/09/2017 5:36:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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Google has been doing this for years but very few people have noticed.


10 posted on 08/09/2017 5:37:35 AM PDT by RedWulf
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If anyone wonders about Google’s propaganda just enter “American mathematicians” or “American scientists”. You will be shocked, I guarantee.


11 posted on 08/09/2017 5:38:26 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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I started using DuckDuckGo six months ago on my iphone and don’t miss the goog at all.


12 posted on 08/09/2017 5:38:50 AM PDT by GreatRoad
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Google is only as good as the direction you give it.

That’s why I try to be as precise as I can be.

Agreed: Once they block specific searches/sites/keywords, I’ll find something else.


13 posted on 08/09/2017 5:43:05 AM PDT by FatherFig1o155 ("Most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: wastoute
If anyone wonders about Google’s propaganda just enter “American mathematicians” or “American scientists”. You will be shocked, I guarantee.


WOW!

Changed my default to DuckDuckGo

14 posted on 08/09/2017 5:48:41 AM PDT by rdcbn
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If anyone wonders about Google’s propaganda just enter “American mathematicians” or “American scientists”.

Most American mathematicians and scientists, especially the top images, are black. Who knew?

15 posted on 08/09/2017 5:49:57 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Enlightened1

I use Bing whenever possible.


16 posted on 08/09/2017 5:53:40 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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‘There Are Efforts to Demote Anything Non-PC from Search Results’

I am sick and tired of the relentless PROPAGANDA!

It is making me more determined to resist it.

It is sickening, disgusting, dangerous, FALSE, and OBVIOUS!

I know I'm not the only one turned off by it! Every time I turn on the internet or the TV, I'm barraged with LEFTIST PROPAGANDA! I am SICK OF IT! The people behind it are making me more and more angry--and the effect they're having is the OPPOSITE of what they want.

17 posted on 08/09/2017 5:59:48 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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I have my search page set to Bing. Yesterday I switched to DuckDuckGo on both my laptop and desktop.


18 posted on 08/09/2017 6:02:56 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: Qwackertoo

Leftist information fascists.


19 posted on 08/09/2017 6:06:09 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I saw this on 4chan. Couldn’t believe it myself at first.


20 posted on 08/09/2017 6:07:56 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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