GOP turns its fire on Google

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Donald Trump's fight against Google is making its way down Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress.

Republican lawmakers are ramping up their scrutiny of the tech giant after Trump accused Google of political bias and questioned whether regulators should take a closer look at its market powers.

Google added fuel to the fire on Wednesday by skipping a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign influence operations.

The committee sought top executives from each company to testify and successfully secured commitments from Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Google offered to send Kent Walker, its vice president of global affairs. Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), though, rejected that offer in hopes of securing a more senior executive. Google ended up only submitting written testimony from Walker.

That move infuriated lawmakers, who took turns blasting Google during the hearing, which included an empty chair.

Burr said that he was “disappointed that Google decided against sending the right senior-level executive,” to the hearing.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/405667-gop-turns-its-fire-on-google

Don't like Google? Then use Bing or Yahoo as your search engine of choice. The GOP is full of technologically ignorant fuckheads.

[Squinch]

1. Use DuckDuckGo! As good as Google, but they don't track you. But now I think I'll

use Google now and again just because they blew off the grandstanding republican assholes.

[klook]

4. Another vote for DuckDuckGo

My search engine for several years -- excellent service.

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2. Right wing nut jobs are trying to figure out how to set flame to a search engine....

[MineralMan]

3. Well, I guess those Republican candidates don't want to appear

after Google searches. Google should just block them from showing up.

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5. dictator don going after outlets he perceives are unfriendly to him...what a little child