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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGoogle CEO Corrects Rep. Steve King: 'IPhone Is Made By A Different Company'
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/12/google-ceo-corrects-rep-steve-king-iphone12/11/18
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Google CEO Corrects Rep. Steve King: 'IPhone Is Made By A Different Company'
During a hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai was testifying, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) launched into a bit of a rant about his granddaughter's iPhone, prompting a correction by Google's CEO.
By Karoli Kuns
Video @ link~
Republican Congressmen summoned Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Capitol Hill Tuesday to explain why Google "censors" conservatives, why Trump is an idiot, and incidentally, what their privacy practices are.
When it came to Rep. Steve King, he was actually more concerned with something else.
I have a seven-year-old granddaughter who picked up her phone during the election, and shes playing a little game, the kind of game a kid would play, King told Pichai. And up on there pops a picture of her grandfather. And Im not going to say into the record what kind of language was used around that picture of her grandfather, but Id ask you: how does that show up on a seven-year-olds iPhone, whos playing a kids game?
Pichai, a bit nonplussed, replied, "Congressman, the iPhone is made by a different company."
For King, apparently, iPhones and Androids are interchangeable, because he (somewhat sullenly) allowed that it might have been an Android, that it was a hand-me-down.
Now we can have a talk about anyone giving a seven-year old kid a smartphone as hand-me-down, but it should especially be incumbent on parents to pay attention to what their kids can access that way. We can do that, but I'd rather speculate about what could have popped up on his granddaughter's phone.
Given his racism, his sexism, his loathsome and rude comments about anyone who is not a white supremacist like he is, it's not hard to imagine her asking her grampy what a white supremacist is, for example.
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Google CEO Corrects Rep. Steve King: 'IPhone Is Made By A Different Company' (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2018
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Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)1. "Grandpa? What's a jackass?"
Hassler
(3,390 posts)2. Steve King: racist and moron.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)3. What 7 year old has an I phone?
Ok, what normal person buys their 7 year old an iPhone?
Just a Weirdo
(488 posts)4. My soon-to-be 10 year old is getting a smartphone
Because I want him to have one so he can stay in touch with us.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)5. I have two granddaughters 8 & 11
I could see getting the 11 year old a phone but the 8 year old is way too immature. Doesn't take care of things, half the time can't keep track of her shoes much less an expensive phone.
malaise
(269,157 posts)6. I howled with laughter when I saw that