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orangecrush

(19,600 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 04:07 PM Aug 2018

Trump Planning to "Regulate" Google Searches

The Trump administration is “taking a look” at whether Google and its search engine should be regulated by the government, Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s economic adviser, said Tuesday outside the White House.

“We’ll let you know,” Kudlow said. “We’re taking a look at it.”

The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House’s crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.

Kudlow’s remark to reporters came hours after Trump fired off a series of predawn tweets complaining about Google search results for “Trump News.”

In a pair of tweets posted before 6 a.m., the president said the results included only “the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media.”


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/28/trump-wakes-up-googles-himself-and-doesnt-like-what-he-sees-illegal/



Please tell me this isn't really happening.

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Trump Planning to "Regulate" Google Searches (Original Post) orangecrush Aug 2018 OP
hes too stupid to realize how it works samnsara Aug 2018 #1
Sorry but even this does not surprise me. gordianot Aug 2018 #2
Oh, it's happening alright... Raster Aug 2018 #3
LOL Scurrilous Aug 2018 #4
Since we know google knows who we are when we google fierywoman Aug 2018 #5
Says the head of the party that gutted Codeine Aug 2018 #6
Praise the king or off with your head. spanone Aug 2018 #7
He could start his own search engine torius Aug 2018 #8
They don't have anything better to do with their time ProudLib72 Aug 2018 #9
Oh please. He has no idea how it works and no way to do it nolabear Aug 2018 #10
Dictator Don wishes. sarcasmo Aug 2018 #11
Thereby limiting the people's right to know and to be informed. lpbk2713 Aug 2018 #12
Distraction #2,347 leftofcool Aug 2018 #13
The majority of people on this planet hate your guts. SamKnause Aug 2018 #14
Sums it up orangecrush Aug 2018 #15
I think I know now why Trump gets search results he doesn't like jmowreader Aug 2018 #16
Word. orangecrush Aug 2018 #24
The Google works the way it does because Trump tweets too much LiberalFighter Aug 2018 #17
Oh lordy, what have we learned here? Iterate Aug 2018 #18
D.U. rec! orangecrush Aug 2018 #20
Impossible to do...and what a waste of time.. HipChick Aug 2018 #19
How to tell the difference orangecrush Aug 2018 #22
Replacing Safe Search with Snowflake Safe Search? NightWatcher Aug 2018 #21
... orangecrush Aug 2018 #23
If he doesn't want people to see all the bad things coming out of his mouth, then perhaps he should dalton99a Aug 2018 #25
That would destroy one of the biggest tech companies itsrobert Aug 2018 #26
His Russian handlers must be telling him TheRealNorth Aug 2018 #27
more drumpfian authoritarian drool. democratisphere Aug 2018 #28
If Google actually flattened out their algorithms C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #29
Try doing some work why doncha and additionally, sprinkleeninow Aug 2018 #30
Maybe he should just get a subscription to Reputation Defender! Dread Pirate Roberts Aug 2018 #31
... orangecrush Aug 2018 #33
Trumpers should just use Yandex.com. Dave Starsky Aug 2018 #32
Next will be that Creationism links must appear when you google Evolution mr_lebowski Aug 2018 #34

fierywoman

(7,688 posts)
5. Since we know google knows who we are when we google
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 04:13 PM
Aug 2018

why don't they just craft an algorithm for Spanky Bonespurs so that when he googles himself he only gets Fox & Sycophants ?

torius

(1,652 posts)
8. He could start his own search engine
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 04:15 PM
Aug 2018

maybe called it deepstate or deepshit or something that would only show FOX, conspiracy, anti-science, and neo-Nazi sites. His supporters could get all their info about everything from there!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
9. They don't have anything better to do with their time
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 04:16 PM
Aug 2018

Instead of taking steps to thwart Russian cyber attacks, they attempt to make every single Google search place and article about how great the Rump is at the top of the page.

nolabear

(41,990 posts)
10. Oh please. He has no idea how it works and no way to do it
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 04:17 PM
Aug 2018

Unless he wants to just blatantly hire those Russian hackers who are working for him anyway. And talk about waving a red cape in front of American nerds-a cyberwar would ensue.

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)
12. Thereby limiting the people's right to know and to be informed.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 04:23 PM
Aug 2018


Acting on instructions from his puppet master Vlad. Trump is a treasonous scumbag.

SamKnause

(13,108 posts)
14. The majority of people on this planet hate your guts.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 04:33 PM
Aug 2018

You useless fucker, you should have stayed in your tower.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
16. I think I know now why Trump gets search results he doesn't like
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 05:55 PM
Aug 2018

Take the first person to get washed out of Worst Cooks in America, and give him a basket containing the following items:

Everything Republicans hate about Democrats
Everything Democrats hate about Republicans
The criminal savvy of Boris Badenov
And the business-leadership skills of "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap

Have him stir all those things into a 350-pound lump of shit and cook it until it's half-baked, and you wind up with Donald Trump.

Not only is this completely idiotic in that he doesn't understand two things: how search engines work and that the entire world doesn't revolve around him, but aren't Republicans supposed to be AGAINST regulation?

LiberalFighter

(51,020 posts)
17. The Google works the way it does because Trump tweets too much
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 06:09 PM
Aug 2018

and talks without making sense all the time.

If he shut up and did the job the right way Google would have less negative Google about him.

Sorry. It is strange using Google and something about Trump in a sentence.

Iterate

(3,020 posts)
18. Oh lordy, what have we learned here?
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 06:52 PM
Aug 2018

When he wakes, predawn and before the SSS routine I assume, Mr. Puffyeyes googles himself and looks for "Trump News" results. Not seeing anything to his liking (and why would he?), the rest of us are expected to play along and continue the ruse. Now it's bad enough that the White House staff plays this cowardly game, but it's nothing I'll sign up for. Although I would sign up for a morning wake-up call to flood the WH switchboard at 4 AM, helpfully prepping him with a fresh morning brief.

It's for his own good. Otherwise he'll inevitably have his own Ceauşescu moment when the fantasy collapses, like the original:



The illusion breaks at about 0:40.

dalton99a

(81,566 posts)
25. If he doesn't want people to see all the bad things coming out of his mouth, then perhaps he should
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 11:31 PM
Aug 2018

Shut The Fuck Up.

itsrobert

(14,157 posts)
26. That would destroy one of the biggest tech companies
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 11:34 PM
Aug 2018

Everyone would just move to a different search engine.

C_U_L8R

(45,014 posts)
29. If Google actually flattened out their algorithms
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 11:48 PM
Aug 2018

Republicans would be getting bestiality videos with every search.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
34. Next will be that Creationism links must appear when you google Evolution
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 12:45 AM
Aug 2018

NRA links must be at top when you search for Gun Violence
Links to Trump Resorts at top if you search for Golf News

etc, etc, etc ...

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