Out of Touch Republicans have no idea how Google Works

typed in "favorable stories about Republicans’ attempts to repeal Obamacare" and here are the top hits on the first page

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/05/obamacare-republicans-elections-2018-919294
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/house-republicans-obamacare-repeal-votes-102911
https://slate.com/news-and-politics...al-obamacare-again-if-they-hold-congress.html
https://www.axios.com/affordable-ca...ons-eeeee50f-2fbd-4d9e-ac40-a2e394b6dcd2.html
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/poll-shows-support-obamacare-reaching-all-time-high
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/us/politics/health-care-affordable-care-act.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-really-that-popular/?utm_term=.b6cfea422bc5
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...pdates-senate-republicans-affordable-care-act
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...acare-taxes-and-penalties-keep-some-subsidies
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/oba...-midterms-despite-gop-efforts-to-kill-it.html

Pretty sure these are all favorable stories about Republicans’ attempts to repeal Obamacare.

 

This probably needs to be run in the new senate with Hawley in charge. That these guys don't really know how this works is probably the biggest issue, because Google and Amazon in particular need anti-trust break ups more than the robber barons ever did.

 

Upvote this picture of Hillary so it's the first result when you Google 'crook'.

 

the most memorable part was.

Rep Steve King showing his iPhone to the Google CEO,

"when my grand daughter type in my name,
my photo comes up, accompanied by obscenities...."
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to which the Google CEO replied

"Congressman, iPhone is made by another company"

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and the right wingnuts want to mock a 28-yr old house freshman !

 

xxx

 

These are the people that decides issues like net neutrality, should I be coming up with new ideas on how to perform brain surgery?

 

The problem isn't even that these politicians are clueless when it comes to technology, that's always going to be a problem that exists on both sides of the aisle to a certain extent. The real problem is that you can see Trumpism and the whiny entitlement that comes with it trickling down to Republican politicians on Capitol Hill. This hearing was filled with House Republicans complaining about bias against them and acting like they're entitled to positive coverage (and positive Google search results) regardless of their actions and they've now taken to conjuring up ridiculous conspiracy theories like Google altering search results to negatively affect them.

It's truly insane. The normalization of bat sh** crazy conspiracy theories and the right labeling everything and everyone that they don't agree with as being consumed by bias and out to get them is dangerous and it's a problem that only seems to be getting worse and worse.

 

Let's be fair here -- it's mostly an age thing. I don't think it's Republicans that are out of touch as much as it is old politicians that live in a bubble that are out of touch.

 

I don't know. My mother thinks they're idiots too.

 

what you see depends on your history, unless you opt out of that

 

I'd like to try that, haven't done an opt out before. pretty straightforward to do in google settings somewhere?

 

Doubt they make it that easy to opt out. Check privacy / security setting.

 

actually I'm looking right now, supposedly you can opt out but the instructions I have are a year old, google's account pages have changed. I'll keep looking

 

turns out I had it turned off already

 

Sure,i don't really know anyone over 50 whose been in a senior role for an extended period that knows much about technology, pretty much everyone i deal with has their secretary, or pa, or ea or whatever title they want to give it, do all that work for them and can barely get that email thing.

And then once you're reaching what google does, you're now so many levels beyond the simple part that its going to come across silly.

But Google aren't secretive about their method, they call it "unbiasing", which is itself completely on ideological grounds and sounds orwellian because it is. Things that conservatives tend to believe are considered to be those things in need of unbiasing because see above, which is why republicans end up the way they do, and they seem to collate all these things as an amorphous collection (which is how for example, the creator of dilbert, ends up with photoshopped nazi images. and a deliberately misconstrued hit piece from a decade ago as his "top images")

It's not that there is some engineer doing it, it's the algorithm itself that is designed that way, but no one that was talking to them has the background to do this, which is why i think it needs to wait for the new senate, and Hawley (who alphabet have been busy trying to bring down) in particular. They need to be asked about unbiasing, and surrounding details, on the record, for everyone to see.

 

Liberal media wont tell you that Speaker elect Ocasio once rode on a car and cant drive stick

 

Might I suggest Rep Steve King as a potential patient?

 

Wait what?

The things you people come up with. My god!