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AD says

how do you do that without attracting attention from DOJ Civil Rights division or EEOC ?

I think the EEOC's own laws could be used to do this. Discrimination against white people is also illegal, in theory.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/tech/google-interfered-in-us-elections-41-times-since-2008-report/

Google has been putting its thumb on the scale to help Democratic candidates win the presidency in the last four election cycles during which it censored Republicans, according to a right-leaning media watchdog.

The Media Research Center published a report alleging 41 instances of “election interference” by the search engine since 2008.

The MRC published a report accusing Google of having “utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates…while targeting their opponents for censorship.”

https://www.thefp.com/p/ex-google-employees-woke-gemini-culture-broken

Google’s Woke AI Wasn’t a Mistake. We Know. We Were There.

The world has been horrified—and amused—by the extreme ideological bent of Gemini, Google’s much-hyped new AI tool, which the company launched last month.

But Shaun Maguire, who was a partner at Google Ventures, the company’s investment wing, from 2016 until 2019, had a different reaction.

“I was not shocked at all,” he told The Free Press. “When the first Google Gemini photos popped up on my X feed, I thought to myself: Here we go again. And: Of course. Because I know Google well. Google Gemini’s failures revealed how broken Google’s culture is in such a visually obvious way to the world. But what happened was not a one-off incident. It was a symptom of a larger cultural phenomenon that has been taking over the company for years.”

Patrick says

The world has been horrified—and amused—by the extreme ideological bent of Gemini, Google’s much-hyped new AI tool, which the company launched last month.

You do realize this is a good thing?

Google has betrayed the nation by pretending to be an informational resource, and instead does everything they can to distort information, prevent people from finding it, censoring people, and promoting propaganda. I don't think they have enough diversity yet.

richwicks says

Google has betrayed the nation by pretending to be an informational resource, and instead does everything they can to distort information, prevent people from finding it, censoring people, and promoting propaganda. I don't think they have enough diversity yet.

We can hope that their diversity hires drag down the quality of Google websites to the point where no one uses them. I think it's already happening to some degree.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/government-seeks-to-obtain-personal-data-about-you-tube-viewers_id156589

Patrick says

We can hope that their diversity hires drag down the quality of Google websites to the point where no one uses them. I think it's already happening to some degree.

There's no doubt.

Google email is installed on every Android phone, nobody uses it. Google Voice was installed on every Android phone, nobody used that. You could run Google voice on your computer, any device really, to make and receive phone calls - know anybody that does it?

YouTube was the UNDISPUTED KING of video, but they engaged in censorship, kicked off all the interesting people, pushed assholes like Rachael Maddow and Sean Hannity down everybody's throat, and censored actual creators, kept deleting videos - Rumble is going to replace them.

richwicks says

YouTube was the UNDISPUTED KING of video

Still I've been grateful for Youtube from learning about trading puts and calls, to installing Ubuntu on a 2018 desktop computer, to being able to troubleshoot and fix my vehicle.

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AD says

Still I've been grateful for Youtube from learning about trading puts and calls, to installing Ubuntu on a 2018 desktop computer, to being able to troubleshoot and fix my vehicle.

Sure, it's fine for anything not really important.

It's been a real, very intentional effort, to dismantle the propaganda system that is fucking us all, and YouTube has picked the side of keeping that in operation. Fuck them.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/no-sheetz-tuesday-april-23-2024-c

Many folks have complained recently about Israel’s use of AI to pick targets in Gaza. I mean, what could go wrong? Well, apparently angst toward Israel may be misplaced. They probably got it from us, since the U.S. developed that technology first. The New York Times yesterday ran a remarkable, non-paywalled story headlined, “In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Got Overwhelmed.” Actually, Google did it. For nine million dollars.

Here’s how the genesis of our robot overlords was described in the article:

Six years ago, the Silicon Valley giant signed a small, $9 million contract to put the skills of a few of its most innovative developers to the task of building an artificial intelligence tool that would help the military detect potential targets on the battlefield using drone footage.

Patrick says

They probably got it from us, since the U.S. developed that technology first.

Why is that an issue now? Israel got lots of was stuff from the US - the F-35s and other warplanes, bombs. munitions, and tons of dollars.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-05-07-bombshell-google-youtube-funded-covid19-bioweapon-study.html

But check out the conflict of interest statement, a screenshot of which you can see in the tweet below from Natalie Winters. It shows that Metabiota Inc. received funding from Google, one of the world's most powerful and corrupt corporate entities. ...

Keep in mind that Google, as Winters also points out, heavily censored the "lab leak" theory of COVID when it first started to circulate. Perhaps Google was trying to protect itself from being implicated in the bioweapon's development?

It turns out that Google has been a silent partner of Daszak and EcoHealth for the better part of 14 some-odd years at least. A 2010 study on bat flaviviruses lists both Daszak and EcoHealth vice president Jonathan Epstein as authors – and like the 2018 study mentioned above, this 2010 study thanks Google for funding it.

Yet another paper on henipavirus spillover that was published in 2014 shows the same authors and funding from Google, demonstrating a lengthy relationship between these entities. ...

"It's no secret that Google regularly collaborates with intelligence agencies," wrote another, referring to Jigsaw, Google's intelligence agency, citing a 2021 report from Zero Hedge.

"They are a known NSA subcontractor. They launched Google Earth using a CIA spy satellite network. Their executive suite's revolving door with DARPA is well known."

Patrick says

Hahaha... I just restart using my roku controller. It usually takes zero to four starts to get a vidya going and with that simple controller it's super fast too. Much faster than trying that with a web browser. I do the same for adds in the middle of videos. It's not so much that I don't ever want to watch an add it's that I don't want to watch an add from that company that helps support it. There are rumble channels I watch the adds.

https://thepostmillennial.com/rumble-sues-google-for-1-billion-over-digital-ad-monopoly

Rumble sues Google for $1 billion over digital ad 'monopoly'
Rumble argued Google "excludes competition by engaging in conduct unlawful under settled antitrust precedent."

https://www.sott.net/article/491590-Unprecedented-Google-Cloud-error-WIPES-customer-account-and-backups-for-no-reason

Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud's biggest blunders ever: Google's Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason. UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire account wiped out at Google Cloud, including all its backups that were stored on the service. UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data, but according to UniSuper's incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services didn't happen until May 15.

Patrick says

https://www.sott.net/article/491590-Unprecedented-Google-Cloud-error-WIPES-customer-account-and-backups-for-no-reason

Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud's biggest blunders ever: Google's Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason. UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire account wiped out at Google Cloud, including all its backups that were stored on the service. UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data, but according to UniSuper's incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services didn't happen until May 15.

That IT guy that decided on a third backup while using a non-Google provider should get a nice bonus.

I can apparently opt out but I received this email from googly:

"Your Android devices will soon join the Find My Device network

How it works
Devices in the network use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. If other devices detect your items, they’ll securely send the locations where the items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will do the same to help others find their offline items when detected nearby."

It even works if your device is off...

Creepy.

https://x.com/woke8yearold/status/1802483394745393310

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/internet-memory-holes

They are filtering out the Trump Assassination Attempt photo also.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13682029/Google-sparks-frightening-new-election-conspiracy-key-feature-omits-Trump.html

Search engine results on Google about the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump are coming up empty, leading the web giant open to accusations of election tampering.

Google has been accused by conservatives of interfering in elections dating back to 2008, with the Hunter Biden laptop story suppression in 2020 leading many on the right irate.

Now, those who enter the terms 'assassination attempt' into the system, the attempt on the life of Donald Trump just two weeks ago doesn't show up.

The news reached Donald Trump Jr. who issued a blistering statement on X regarding the omission.

He wrote: 'Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris. We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable.'

I've confirmed for myself that the AI linked to by DuckDuckGo also omits mention of the Trump assassination attempt when you ask it to tell you about recent assassination attempts. But when you complain, it apologizes and knows all about it.

Patrick says

Search engine results on Google about the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump are coming up empty, leading the web giant open to accusations of election tampering.

The Dems are constantly talking about taking anti-trust action against Alphabet. Alphabet knows that if they do not tow the Dem line that anti0trust will get serious.