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EXCLUSIVE: GOOGLE EMPLOYEES DEBATED BURYING CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IN SEARCH
Daily Caller ^ | 11/29/2018 | peter hasson

Posted on 11/30/2018 8:13:45 AM PST by bitt

Google employees debated whether to bury The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets in the company’s search function as a response to President Donald Trump’s election “Let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years,” one engineer wrote in a thread that included a Google vice president Google employees similarly sought to manipulate search results to combat Trump’s travel ban Google employees debated whether to bury conservative media outlets in the company’s search function as a response to President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, internal Google communications obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation reveal.

The Daily Caller and Breitbart were specifically singled out as outlets to potentially bury, the communications reveal.

Trump’s election in 2016 shocked many Google employees, who had been counting on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beevil; breitbart; censorship; collusion; corporateliberalism; dailycaller; despotism; feclaws; google; googlebias; internet; mediabias; scottbyer; search; technotyranny
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1 posted on 11/30/2018 8:13:45 AM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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2 posted on 11/30/2018 8:14:05 AM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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Only Democrats will be allowed Free Speech.


3 posted on 11/30/2018 8:17:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Clearly, the “bury the conservative results” camp won the debate, because that is what Google does.


4 posted on 11/30/2018 8:22:06 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Sacajaweau
Seems to be an oxymorn...

Only Democrats will be allowed Free Speech.

Only Democrats will be allowed Free Unfetterd Speech.

5 posted on 11/30/2018 8:22:09 AM PST by ptsal
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To: bitt

A media monopoly. Break them up.


6 posted on 11/30/2018 8:22:46 AM PST by PGR88
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To: bitt
The sad reality is that Google ha clearly rejected the very concept of objectivity in the application of its functional operations. There is no way they deserve the public trust in providing a search vehicle, where controversial ideas my be involved.

Absurdity At Google

7 posted on 11/30/2018 8:24:00 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: PGR88

Seriously. Trump needs to quit pussyfooting around with this.


8 posted on 11/30/2018 8:24:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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#5 No they will stomp all over speech period.
What was ok on monday will change on tuesday.


9 posted on 11/30/2018 8:27:46 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: bitt

If you read the other parts of the thread published in the article it actually makes Google look pretty good.


10 posted on 11/30/2018 8:28:31 AM PST by semimojo
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To: bitt

Google stands with China in burying the horrors of Communism and CNN stood with Saddam Hussein burying news of torture, abuse, and murder in Iraq.


11 posted on 11/30/2018 8:28:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Trump is by character a deal maker. He must make deals his opponents can’t refuse.


12 posted on 11/30/2018 8:28:55 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: bitt

1946
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”

“...and now let’s see how we spot the 2nd of the signs of true democracy - SHARED POWER...”

“...More specifically you can say that power is shared wherever regular popular elections are authorized and are actually held. There is shared power wherever get out voluntarily and vote. And if they can vote without interference or pressure from anybody.”

“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”

“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”

“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”

Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo

“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”

Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff


13 posted on 11/30/2018 8:30:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: bitt

Debated? They did.

Google any kind of news story or topic, and you are bombarded with almost all leftwing spin, tweets, fact checkers, videos, etc.

It’s total propaganda.


14 posted on 11/30/2018 8:32:09 AM PST by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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To: bitt

How unAmerican of this company to collude with one another to take away the right of conservatives to express their opinion. There ought to be a law against that.


15 posted on 11/30/2018 8:32:52 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: bitt

Bump


16 posted on 11/30/2018 8:34:36 AM PST by lowbridge
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They won’t completely suppress it. They deliberately and intentionally change its rank in the results.


17 posted on 11/30/2018 8:38:34 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: bitt

Gee, try a web search anyway. They’ve purged conservative media. Can’t even find an alternative view and some pages especially in google owned You Tube are disappeared.


18 posted on 11/30/2018 8:38:45 AM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: I want the USA back
They will deliberately suppress certain investigations.

Absurdity At Google

19 posted on 11/30/2018 8:44:10 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: bitt

Rename GooGle to GarGoyle .. a moniker more fitting for the monster it has become.


20 posted on 11/30/2018 9:02:49 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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