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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums****The Trump Administration is exploring censoring Google ****
The Trump administration is taking a look at whether Google searches should be regulated by the government, said Larry Kudlow, President Trumps economic adviser, outside the White House Tuesday.
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White Houses crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Kudlows 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.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/28/trump-wakes-up-googles-himself-and-doesnt-like-what-he-sees-illegal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.456f4eb4d85d
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White Houses crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Kudlows 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.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/28/trump-wakes-up-googles-himself-and-doesnt-like-what-he-sees-illegal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.456f4eb4d85d
Wow. I would have put it in all caps but I wasn't in the mood to get in a fight with the net etiquette enforcers
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****The Trump Administration is exploring censoring Google **** (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Aug 2018
OP
they want to regulate the search engine but not the actual source of the "fake news"
unblock
Aug 2018
#10
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. So no 1st Amendment exists?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,899 posts)2. Link, please?
Girard442
(6,086 posts)3. One road into the future leads to some kind of martial law.
Yet another reason to pull out all the stops for election 2018.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)4. This is sick. FAUX BLUES does a hit job on Google this morning.
Don the Con sees it and calls for action. Before lunchtime the official position of the White House is that Google should be censored. THIS IS HOW POLICY IS NOW BEING MADE FOLKS !!! THIS IS INSANE !!!!!
Sunny Daze
(209 posts)5. Don't they have a country they should be running?
Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)7. You misspelled 'ruining'
Sunny Daze
(209 posts)12. Yes, i did...my mistake!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)6. Another ugly phase of the republican War on Truth & Decency
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)8. You are what you google
Trump should try googling less porn and he might see his results change.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)9. Must not have bowed to the King
unblock
(52,386 posts)10. they want to regulate the search engine but not the actual source of the "fake news"
yeah that makes perfect sense
obviously the first amendment protects both, at least it would if we weren't in a nascent dictatorship....
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)11. They're trying to move the goalposts again
and scare google and others into making their searches RW friendly.