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Normally I'm inclined to agree. However, after the revelation of all the whitehouse meetings disclosed by the Google transparency project, it definitely sounds more like coordinated thought control using ideas like 'group think' to control opinion.

A detailed examination of White House visitor logs reveals the extraordinary access to the Obama White House enjoyed by Google, its top executives and employees. Since President Obama took office in January 2009 through October 31, 2015, employees of Google and associated entities visited the White House 427 times.

That includes:

363 meetings between White House officials and Google employees.
64 meetings involving employees of companies solely owned by Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt.
The meetings were attended by at least 169 Google executives, from the company’s senior ranks down to software engineers, and 182 White House officials.

  Interesting that software engineers are in attendance. Im sure everyone brings software engineers with them to meetings top executives have with major world celebrities and organizations, whose meetings are only discussing broad topics like where is the internet headed.

you can read the full report here https://googletransparencyproj...

When you compare it to other tech companies, telecom companies like ATT etc, all of them combined do not have this many visits. In fact the only other tech company with a disproportionate amount of WH visits during this time is Facebook. Interesting that software engineers are in attendance. I'm sure its not because the former POTUS was trying to use Google to track down the last of his missing Pokemon cards. Conspiracy's are not usually simple, but the motives generally _are_. Power and Greed are always the strongest motivators.

the conspiracies about Google (which is also Google+ as well as YouTube) and Facebook spying on the public for the government, and imposing their own, guided, form of GroupThink predate Trump by many years. In fact some of the naysayer's here argued quite the opposite back then, before it was used for something they don't seem to mind.

you mean like Facebook and Youtube, deciding for themselves, what content to delete, what accounts to suspend, and what speech to censure with no legal recourse, no oversight, no transparency? That sort of restriction by content? Never once was that in breech of Net Neutrality. How is it conent on the servers I provide considered MY Property to decide what is and what is not acceptable, but the same data as it flows through my switches, routers, and fiber connections NOT considered the same property with the same discretion? This is why Net Neutrality had to go, as written. It was the furthest thing from Neutral, it was a rule, imposed without a law, restricting someone from doing something and yet allowing another company to do the exact same thing, they just happen to be your buddies. Its cronyism. There is a reason why Google logged more whitehouse visits during the Obummer administration than EVERY SINGLE OTHER LOBBYIST combined. They werent fucking talking about golfing all those times. Thats for sure.

http://googletransparencyproje...

So what did we get? We got Google drafting the language of Net Neutrality that makes ATT and other carriers subsidize their costs of running Youtube, while holding Facebook and Youtube EXEMPT from the same principles that the word Neutrality implies.

obviously someone unaware of reality since you want to assume that trump would be the one bribed.. your former manchurian candidate was in bed with them non-stop. If anyone would have an axe to grind it would be someone who perceived he was cast in a bad light by google.

http://www.googletransparencyp...

during the Obummer presidency, Google's Director of Public Policy, Johanna Shelton, had more visits to the whitehouse than Facebook, Comcast, Oracle, ATT, and Verizon combined. That should tell you something creepy is going on. To put this in perspective, from 2009 - 2015 she was in the logs as visiting the white house 128 times.

Shelton's visits were just the tip of the iceberg. The Google Transparency Project found a total of 427 White House meetings involving employees of Google or related firms — more than one a week for the Obama administration.

from the article : http://www.googletransparencyp...

Seriously. It's hilarious to watch the mental gymnastics of Google's CEO openly tauting that he's DIRECTLY working with a presidential candidate to "use our data" to help the candidate.

  - Facebook sold some ads. Who the fuck reads Facebook ads?
  - Google literally used their entire platform (read: tracking your information) + "muh algorithms" to assist a candidate.

And IN RETURN, the CEO got, and I quote, "a virtual open door to access the White House at will"

https://www.googletransparency...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://mashable.com/2009/04/2...

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/...

https://www.politico.com/story...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"Eric Schmitt, 'CEO of America' "

And these are LIBERAL WEBSITES running these articles. So you can't even play the whole "alt-right / foxnews / fakenews / Russia-wrote-it" Red Herring bullshit.

Of course, I don't know why we're restricting to Obama either. Under Hillary, they did the same thing (for likely the same quid-pro-quo arrangement):

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.googletransparencyp...

https://qz.com/823922/eric-sch...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://qz.com/520652/groundwo...

So with literally DOZENS upon dozens of professional articles dedicated to the subject from dozens of separate news organizations, anyone who ignores this well-established fact is throwing their head in the sand and humming, and not worthy of a debate response and should be downvoted accordingly for low signal-to-noise ratio.

  -> Google did everything Facebook did, and far more.

Seriously. It's hilarious to watch the mental gymnastics of Google's CEO openly tauting that he's DIRECTLY working with a presidential candidate to "use our data" to help the candidate.

  - Facebook sold some ads. Who the fuck reads Facebook ads?
  - Google literally used their entire platform (read: tracking your information) + "muh algorithms" to assist a candidate.

And IN RETURN, the CEO got, and I quote, "a virtual open door to access the White House at will"

https://www.googletransparency...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://mashable.com/2009/04/2...

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/...

https://www.politico.com/story...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"Eric Schmitt, 'CEO of America' "

And these are LIBERAL WEBSITES running these articles. So you can't even play the whole "alt-right / foxnews / fakenews / Russia-wrote-it" Red Herring bullshit.

Of course, I don't know why we're restricting to Obama either. Under Hillary, they did the same thing (for likely the same quid-pro-quo arrangement):

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.googletransparencyp...

https://qz.com/823922/eric-sch...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://qz.com/520652/groundwo...

So with literally DOZENS upon dozens of professional articles dedicated to the subject from dozens of separate news organizations, anyone who ignores this well-established fact is throwing their head in the sand and humming, and not worthy of a debate response and should be downvoted accordingly for low signal-to-noise ratio.

  -> Google did everything Facebook did, and far more.

Resist.
They want to geolocate you and verify your identity. This cannot be good, and is the definition of 'Doing Harm'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Our private posts, messaging and content on all systems are subject to 4th Amendment protections. It does NOT belong to the provider, and can NOT be provided our used by any Government or NGO to target us or otherwise collect data on us.

Explain why Microsoft was subjected to Anti-Trust by the Clinton Administration (Bill) for packaging a BROWSER with an OPERATING SYSTEM but google and apple are allowed to own phones, media distribution and messaging platforms?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Maybe it has something to do with collusion with our benevolent federal government?
http://googletransparencyproje...

Also, beyond Anti-Trust, why are FCC rules on cross-ownership of mass-media not being applied? 'Fake news' you say....what if that's the only news you can get!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Resist all this. Think of the Orwellian impact of small numbers of elected & unelected people having access to where you are, what you think, who you know and what you are doing about it. No good can come of that.