Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?

Mach III said:
So, the biggest search engine in the World; that almost everyone has their emails running through; data collected on their profiles for searches, has a social media website, has it's operating system on majority of cellphones around the World. The company who's name is in the dictionary as a verb, to 'google' something.

The same company who's ceo met with Julian Assange around the time of his publishing of the leaks, the same ceo that is now a key figure in the pentagon, would never, ever try to dissuade the public?

It astounds me that people can be completely devoid of critical thinking.
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Google and Facebook's entire revenue streams are built on trust. What you are suggesting without any evidence would not just shake people's trust in those services, it would absolutely destroy it. The person who could prove that would be sitting on the biggest get-rich-quick ticket ever so you can be sure there is practically unlimited incentive to get that information into the public. And yet nothing.

People who believe this crap are the same poor, delusional souls who believe 9-11 conspiracy theories, so it is hilarious to see you accusing other people of being "completely devoid of critical thinking" while demonstrating exactly what that looks like.
 
Xarog said:
That's some strong stuff you're smoking, Al.
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Seems the tax cheating extraordinaires are tight with Obama

Over the past seven years, Google has created a remarkable partnership with the Obama White House, providing expertise, services, advice, and personnel for vital government projects. Precisely how much influence this buys Google isn’t always clear. But consider that over in the European Union, Google is now facing two major antitrust charges for abusing its dominance in mobile operating systems and search. By contrast, in the U.S., a strong case to sanction Google was quashed by a presidentially appointed commission.
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As the interactive charts accompanying this article show, Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama’s presidency through October 2015. Nearly 250 people have shuttled from government service to Google employment or vice versa over the course of his administration.No other public company approaches this degree of intimacy with government. According to an analysis of White House data, the Google lobbyist with the most White House visits, Johanna Shelton, visited 128 times, far more often than lead representatives of the other top-lobbying companies — and more than twice as often, for instance, as Microsoft’s Fred Humphries or Comcast’s David Cohen. (The accompanying chart reflects 94 Shelton visits; it excludes large gatherings such as state dinners and White House tours.)
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Google’s dramatic rise as a lobbying force has not gone unnoticed. The company paid almost no attention to the Washington influence game prior to 2007, but ramped up steeply thereafter. It spent $16.7 million in lobbying in 2015, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and has been at or near the top of public companies in lobbying expenses since 2012.

But direct expenditures on lobbying represent only one part of the larger influence-peddling game. Google’s lobbying strategy also includes throwing lavish D.C. parties; making grants to trade groups, advocacy organizations, and think tanks; offering free services and training to campaigns, congressional offices, and journalists; and using academics as validators for the company’s public policy positions. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, was an enthusiastic supporter of both of Obama’s presidential campaigns and has been a major Democratic donor.
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In 2012, staff at the Federal Trade Commission recommended filing antitrust charges after determining that Google was engaging in anti-competitive tactics and abusing its monopoly. A staff report that was later leaked said Google’s conduct “has resulted — and will result — in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the online search and advertising markets.”

The Wall Street Journal noted that Google’s White House visits increased right around that time. And in 2013, the presidentially appointed commissioners of the FTC overrode their staff, voting unanimously not to file any charges.

Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said the administration “has been a huge help” to Google both by protecting it from attempts to limit its market power and by blocking privacy legislation. “Google has been able to thwart regulatory scrutiny in terms of anti-competitive practices, and has played a key role in ensuring that the United States doesn’t protect at all the privacy of its citizens and its consumers,” Chester said.

At a congressional hearing earlier this month, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, citing the possibility of consumer harm, called on the FTC to reconsider the kind of antitrust charges against Google recently filed in Europe
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https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22...hip-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/
 
Xarog said:
:crylaugh:

Yeah, but the point of what I said was to ridicule the notion that either side of the US establishment is in favour of cracking down in the rampant abuses that the corporations are guilty of. Thanks for proving the point.
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Next you'll be telling us Hilary is in fact "well off"

Asked by the paper whether she would represent the populist strain of her party, Clinton said, "They don't see me as part of the problem because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off, not to name names; and we've done it through dint of hard work."
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Earlier this month, Clinton caused controversy when she said she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were "dead broke" when he left the White House in 2000 and subsequently "struggled" to buy homes and pay for their daughter, Chelsea's, education. Chelsea Clinton's wealth also made headlines earlier this month after Politico reported she earned a $600,000 salary as a "special correspondent" for NBC News, a sum Business Insider noted seems to amount to $26,724 for each minute she was on air.
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