Trump's economic adviser: 'We're taking a look' at whether Google searches should be regulated

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Isaac Stanley-Becker and
Brian Fung
August 28 at 9:52 AM

The Trump administration is “taking a look” at whether Google searches should be regulated by the government, said Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s economic adviser, outside the White House Tuesday.

The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House’s crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.

Kudlow’s 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.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/28/trump-wakes-up-googles-himself-and-doesnt-like-what-he-sees-illegal

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Just when I thought I had heard it all.

In any sane administration....

Well, there's your answer.

My apologies to people who really are insane.

I hope some senator asks Brett Kavanaugh what he thinks about this idea.

I'll keep posting this until they get it right:



Source: https://blog.library.gsu.edu/2012/03/23/secularists-descend-upon-d-c-for-reason-rally/

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Trump was alerted to this problem by his media advisers Diamond and Silk during their interview

with Lou Dobbs last night.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. D & S are full of themselves and so is the bloated Mango Mussolini. . . . nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

52. Dobbs is dying his hair?

He's getting as bad as Trump and likewise is fooling no one.

[Arkansas Granny]

55. I wondered about that too. I don't watch his show, but I thought his hair was much lighter in color

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

56. I believe it was white for a while

[Doodley]

3. Fascism 101: limit access to anything that might be critical of the dictatorship.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. What? Regulations? After dismantling the EPA regulations? Controlling the

internet? Absolutely not don ho. I thought they were all about NO rules capitalism?

[herding cats]

5. LOOK AT ME! Trump needs more attention.

Hopefully Mueller can accommodate him with his needs.

[Historic NY]

6. Really, then perhaps we should think about regulating @FoxNews which is being run

as if it was a state run news entity like Sputnik or RT.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. No, we shouldn't, because

Source: https://blog.library.gsu.edu/2012/03/23/secularists-descend-upon-d-c-for-reason-rally/

[democratisphere]

7. A true authoritarian move.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Truly. The algorithms are agnostic & apolitical. Very neutral. No need for regulation. Fight it. nt

[christx30]

26. So he wants to undo math because he thinks it doesn't like him.

Yeah, that sounds like trump. That’s pretty much him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. He doesn't have a clue about math. He can barely read English.

Economics degree? Nonsense. Something rotten about that piece of paper.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Wonder what happened to free enterprise and the promise to remove

government interference.

[paleotn]

9. Good luck with that.

I guess private property rights end when it comes to their f'd up political views.

[global1]

11. So All It Took Was A Tweet By Trump This Morning To.....

generate a discussion by the WH to regulate Google?

Is Trump really that powerful to get something like this going in a matter of hours?

Is Kudrow just humoring Trump on this or is Kudrow really serious?

This insanity has to stop.

[maryellen99]

12. If you go to Google Images and type in "idiot"

His picture and Donnie jr’s comes up. So does Rand Paul’s.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

53. Well why didn't he say that's the issue?

Is he afraid everyone is going to do it now?

[maryellen99]

57. Yep and deep down he knows it's true nt

[djg21]

13. I hope they are looking at the First Amendment too.

This clearly would be a content-based restriction that would be struck down by even a conservative SCOTUS.

[lark]

19. SCOTUS is NOT conservative.

They are rw Russian Repugs and don't care about America or it's constitution. They are all oligarchs all the time and fuck the rest. Roberts is the only repug currently on the court who occasionally shows an oz. of concern about the constitution or our nation's ideals and those times are rare. We certainly can't count on him to uphold the rule of law over the reign of drumpf and putin.

[djg21]

62. That's just not true.

All of the justices are thinking about their place in history, and First Amendment jurisprudence is too well developed to be meddled with. There is little chance any justice or judge would allow the Government an opportunity to dictate that some speech is more important than other speech, and the Court is most unlikely to impose such edicts on a private, albeit publicly traded, corporation.

[lark]

63. If this was a sane world, I would agree.

However, it is not. I hope you are right and I'm just paranoid, but I feel like the GErmans just before WW2. This is not normal, this is not sane.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Kudlow pretends to flush his entire professional reputation down the toilet

for the sake of supporting Trump's fragile ego and his insane tweets. I hope the right wing think tanks remember this - it ought to make him unemployable by everyone once the Trump regime is out of power.

[ProfessorGAC]

44. What Professional Reputation, Muriel?

In economic circles (i mean real economists) he's been a joke since the early 90's.

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. But the right wing think tanks would still have given him space

if he didn't just chuck their ideas of "a market is always the answer" under the bus of Trump's ego.

[ProfessorGAC]

49. Yeah Probably So

One has to be quite the joke though, when the only way to get praise is to get it from right wing "think" tanks.

[SWBTATTReg]

59. Kudlow is worthless, always has been...he's been a loudmouth for what it seems ...

too long, and I stopped listening to him and kin a long time ago.

[pazzyanne]

15. Another incursion into the 1st amendment.

The loss of net neutrality was just step 1.

[strangedaysindeed]

16. God it's actually true

Thanks for that (Google images) notice.

That was very satisfying.

[Mc Mike]

17. Says the king of deregulation.

And his squalid hypocritical goon squad of repug party stalwarts nods in agreement.

Like D RUmp, they also strongly oppose burdensome regulations.

[Bayard]

18. Stay out of my computer!

You punk assed slobbering varmit!!

[2naSalit]

20. !

Words escape me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. If tRump not careful he'll get Santorum'ed into a "frothy mixture". Esp if he pushes more on this.nt

[2naSalit]

25. It's like an imbecile

in a hornets grove just smashing every hive he can see with a baseball bat.

[gay texan]

34. Hmmmm

My vote is "Trump: the end result of your whitey-tighties after eating Indian food of a questionable nature."

[KPN]

21. How about we just regulate your ass out of the WH, fool!

[JohnnyRingo]

27. China regulates Google.

It works out well there, right?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Chinese Politburo loves it. Chinese people, not so much, but they can't say so. . . . nt

[honest.abe]

29. The correct word is "manipulated".

[revmclaren]

30. I don't know what he's upset about.

If you type ' orange buffoon' into Google search, his images pop up as #1 search results.



Only! 2018 - 2020.

[procon]

31. Those "small gubermint" Republicans are masters of sublime irony, huh? nt

[Mad-in-Mo]

32. Does it never occur to him that Trump News

only comprises negative news because he's such a maggot? What has he done that is positive?

[mr_lebowski]

36. That ... had not occurred to us, Dude ...

[Mad-in-Mo]

46. Love it!

[louis-t]

33. Yeah, cuz, freedom....

[mr_lebowski]

37. So someone has analyzed all of the 869,000,000 results when searching for Trump News

And determined that 97% of them ... are links to 'the fake media'?

Why do I doubt that anyone has done such a measurement, let alone that it's correct?

When I did it just now, the Trump/Pence website came up as the very first ...

Looks like IQ45 is losing his mind over all the McCain love (and attention) the past few days, time for another Public TrumpTantrum, banging the his Dictator Drum cause he KNOWS acting like a Fascist will get the Hated Fake Media's attention and make them talk about HIM HIM HIM ...

[ProfessorGAC]

45. Sure, Why Not

What? 869 million results would take like what, 5 minutes to get through?

[mr_lebowski]

48. Programmatically, actually you probably could come up with a decent estimate on 890M records in 5m

But you'd probably need a Google-Grade server with like 256GB ram, an array of RAID'd SSD's, and 64 threads worth of fast processor power to pull it off ... A higher-end 'home PC' could probably do the query in about 2-12 hours depending largely on RAM capacity and disk IO rate.

BUT ... that's assuming the data is already written to a database and wouldn't include slurping the 890M records over the internet and writing it to the DB, as that part would take DAYS, the number of which would depend on a variety of factors.

Thus it's actually not inconceivable that such a test was in fact done ... I just rather doubt it. Probably more like someone looked at the first 100 result one time, and counted with their finger on the screen ... even then I seriously doubt there'd only be 3 links that weren't pointed at CNN/NBC/CBS/WP/NYT, etc.

[ProfessorGAC]

50. I Rather Doubt It Was Well

Look at the crowd we're talking about. Even though they probably have the hardware resources, the software doesn't exist.

Not the software, software. Their personal software.

[Solly Mack]

38. I recommend the POS stop googling his name if he doesn't want the truth about himself.

POS orange tyrant can't handle what people say about him so now he wants to censor them.

[Turbineguy]

39. Systematic discrimination against conservatives?

Gerrymandering and election fraud, foreign influence.

[Javaman]

40. in other news: the orange asshole is passing out 1984 as an instructional manual. nt

[matt819]

41. Is this as moronic as it sounds? (nt)

[Seiad]

42. Sounds like the Fairness Doctrine is something....

.... that the Repups actually favor now? This is just their version of the fairness doctrine and we should call it that because boy were they against that....and they never change their position, right? (Sarcasm).

[LiberalLovinLug]

43. Its time once again for...

Imagine a President, a Democratic President

said they were going to be "taking a look" at whether Google searches should be regulated by the government. The only reason for this is that they think it systematically discriminates against liberals on social media and other platforms.

[Botany]

51. How about stopping google searches for Newsweek, Pence, and Manafort

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

54. Another free market Republican

[geretogo]

58. Regulate the media and free press but deregulate every thing else ; just like the Fascist he is .

[MountCleaners]

60. I'll bet that his supporters have no idea...

..what the Guardian is, hell they probably think that the BBC is "fake news".

[Spartacus101]

61. Trump, show us YOUR search history!

Maybe someone can find it....then again, this would just be giving this squalling brat more attention...

(BTW, all DU'ers, as long as we're here, a good EU-standards search engine is https://eu.startpage.com)

[Blue_Tires]

64. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment

[billh58]

65. Protestors Are Gaming Google Images So When You Search 'Idiot,' President Trump Appears

First President Trump topped protests across London as a giant baby blimp. Now, he’s topping Google Images.

Protestors, activists and Internet users are seeking to influence Google’s algorithm so that when the term “idiot” is searched for, images of Trump pop up on Google. According to the Guardian, this began when British protestors used the Green Day hit “American Idiot” as the anthem for their demonstrations during Trump’s recent visit to the U.K. But now more users are taking advantage of that online association by up-voting a picture of Trump and the word “idiot” on Reddit.

As of Wednesday night, nine of the first ten results on Google Images searches for “idiot” were of or related to President Trump.

This is not the first time Google algorithms have been manipulated. In 2004, searching “Jew” returned a hook-nosed caricature. In 2009, searching “Michelle Obama” returned users a photo of the first lady retouched with ape-like traits. And before the last U.S. election, googling “rapist” would likely return at least five images of Bill Clinton in the top 10, the Guardian reports.

http://time.com/5342602/donald-trump-idiot-google/

Or, the New Jersy billboard: http://nj1015.com/dont-like-trump-idiot-billboard-dont-look/

"Idiot" has a nice ring to it when speaking about our Dear Leader...