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Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism (businessinsider.com)
Google today confirmed that it is removing "In the news" section from the top of desktop search, and replacing it with a carousel of "Top stories," similar to what exists on mobile. From a new report on BusinessInsider: This move had been planned for quite some time, and is being rolled out globally, according to Google. The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product. Last month, Google faced scrutiny when one of its top results for "final election count" was fake news. The top result in Google Search's "In the news" section was a Wordpress blog named "70 News," which falsely claimed Trump won the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000. (He didnâ(TM)t). Google's search results, in contrast to Google News, are not assessed for "truth."
*Google finds folder with kiddie porn*
*Right-clicks on folder, re-names it stuff*
"There we go, that should do it."
thats not how it works. the rules were long standing and clear, its about electors in the states. Its like baseball - the Indians scored more runs than the Cubs in the World Series but who won?
Yes, she now leads by 2.7 million votes
And yet she lost.
The only election that counts has not occurred.
I realize that you love jumping down my throat for every little thing you can, but if "the only election that counts" has not occurred, then I am absolutely correct in saying that she has not won the only election that counts.
And I am well aware that there are people trying to subvert the process that was accepted by all prior to Election Day, but didn't turn out the way that some people wanted. The losers think they don't need to accept the loss and want the process to change so they win. Petitions have been signed! Protests have been held! Mob rule. How nice.
Why would you characterize what he described as 'subverting' the process?
Because the process is that those electors were elected to vote for a specific person. They pledged to do so when they were selected.
The rules of the process were designed to allow for those scenarios.
What are "those scenarios"? Protests in the streets demanding the overturn of the results? Petitions demanding the same? No, sorry. Those scenarios are not part of the process. We have elections, not mob rule. The "popular vote" cannot be one of those scenarios because there IS no popular vote defined as part of the process. It is a fiction. It is something used by people who lost the actual election to try to get the real results overturned. (And by those who "win" by a huge number as proof of a mandate -- just as silly.)
Interestingly, the states that have introduced penalties for electors who choose to vote their conscience are the ones who are trying to subvert the process.
What utter nonsense. Do you work for the Ministry of Truth? Were you someone Orwell warned us of?
The electors who are saying they will reject the result of their state are being the same hypocrites who claimed they would not support the Republican nominee, after demanding that Trump pledge that HE would support the Republican nominee when they expected him to lose.
First, look who's jumping down throats... Please keep it civil.
I've kept it civil, and I made that comment based on a posting history.
The electoral college was designed to allow electors the freedom to cast votes contrary to the pledge you've mentioned.
So the pledge to vote the way the voters of the state that elected them want them to means nothing. The fact that they are disenfranchising their voters means nothing.
And no, the system was not designed so that the results of other states are intended to influence the electors for anyplace else. Montana electors are not supposed to care what the voters in Oregon or California do. They're Montana's electors. And Ohio's electors are Ohio's, not New York's. Etc. etc. etc.
If you must complain, I recommend you direct your complaints at the actual process
I'm accepting the process. The complaints are directed towards those who think some fictional "popular vote" means something. Or a petition calling for a different result. Or a protest march calling for a different result.
So "boohoo" yourself.