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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be present at a private meeting with top Republican lawmakers this Friday to discuss the company's controversial plans to relaunch a search product in China and perceived liberal bias of search results, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. According to the WSJ, Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to meet with state attorneys general on Tuesday to discuss Google's alleged censorship of conservatives. Tech firms have denied the existence of liberal bias in products, and Google has pushed back against key Trump inaccuracies, but it sounds as if Pichai will be forced to answer questions nonetheless. The meeting is being organized by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Late last week, Pichai sent an email to employees, which was obtained by The New York Times, in which he stated outright that Google has never influenced search results for political purposes and has no plans to do so in the future.
Pichai also plans to attend a public hearing later this year held by the House Judiciary Committee following the November midterm elections, after Google co-founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page notably declined to show up to a Senate Intel Committee hearing on election interference earlier this month. In addition to mending relationships over Page's absence, Pichai will also be addressing Google's plans to relaunch a search product for the Chinese market, a move that has resulted in widespread criticism given the likelihood such a product would be heavily censored and would aid in China's use of information control to maintain social and political order.
Pichai also plans to attend a public hearing later this year held by the House Judiciary Committee following the November midterm elections, after Google co-founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page notably declined to show up to a Senate Intel Committee hearing on election interference earlier this month. In addition to mending relationships over Page's absence, Pichai will also be addressing Google's plans to relaunch a search product for the Chinese market, a move that has resulted in widespread criticism given the likelihood such a product would be heavily censored and would aid in China's use of information control to maintain social and political order.
Except of course for the hundreds of demonstrable examples, sure.
Their CEO literally said at an all-hands meeting that they would, "do everything in their power to stop conservatives."
You are purposefully ignorant because it suits your politics, but one day the worm will turn and you'll find yourself oppressed by the same monopolistic evil.
Never mind the fact that most people in the country are demonstrably not conservatives
Where are you getting this from? Hopefully not political polling, after seeing how accurate it was in 2016. Speaking of the election itself:
Trump + Johnson = 67,474,169 votes
Clinton + Stein = 67,310,732 votes
It's a wash.
and should reasonably be expected to see things a different way.
"Seeing things a different way" != Censoring all other ways
I don't see ANY "liberals" standing up against what they are doing. They are complicit, and I suspect they agree with it. /. saying that censoring the right is not only acceptable but should be a requirement.
After talking to many "liberals" on tax policy, once I have them convinced that reducing tax rates INCREASES revenue (its a fact), they then come back that the point of taxes is to punish the successful not raise revenue.
When pointed out school vouchers might help smart kids in bad neighborhoods, they tell me that school vouchers will wreck their "good schools" by letting kids from "bad schools", also known as blacks, into their good schools.
Its not difficult to find many "liberals/leftists" here on
Look at unemployment numbers and the number of liberals complaining about it and I've come to the conclusion they are upset blacks might finally get out of poverty and no longer "know their place" as a minority block vote for the DNC.
So go ahead and pretend they are different, they are not. My liberal friends that actually care about doing right, are now conservative. Its funny to listen to them tell me how biased the media is now, when 2 years ago they told me I was off my rocker for saying the same thing.
So either join the conservatives, or do something. What is going on with the SCOTUS hearings is a complete DISGRACE and I suspect the DNC will be paying the price for their actions on it for a decade at least (which is why no one is attempting to stop their nonsense).
> search results accurately provide results that reflect this fact.
Newsflash: That's all Republicans want too.
Its no secret that Google as a company is VERY left-leaning. Its also no secret that Google got rich from prioritizing search results in a way that benefits Google. You do the math.