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<\/p>\nRUSH: So I just watched a little bit of the hearing going on now with the Google CEO being interrogated by various members of Congress. You know, it\u2019s a combination of frustrating and humorous to watch a lot of people who don\u2019t really understand… They hold up their iPhone and they ask the guy a question. They hold up their cell phone and they ask the guy a question. It\u2019s somewhat frustrating and humorous at the same time to see people that don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re talking about or asking about.<\/p>\n
One of the big allegations about Google and all of the big tech firms just in the past… It\u2019s amazing the stages these things go in. We\u2019re back now to the fact, “These companies are tracking every user\u2019s location by the foot! They can tell when you\u2019re here or there, and they\u2019re monitoring every step you take, and they\u2019re able to pinpoint where you are for advertisers at any time of day or night!” So everybody\u2019s back on this.<\/p>\n
So one guy\u2019s holding up his phone, and he\u2019s asking the Google CEO, “If I stand up from where I\u2019m sitting and if I walk over to the corner, does someone in Google know that I have moved that distance?” “Well, Senator…” He\u2019s stumbling through an answer and a guy says, “Look, it\u2019s not a tough question! You make $100 million a year. You can tell me whether or not if I go to the corner of the room, somebody at Google knows it!” Google isn\u2019t tracking people individually. It\u2019s not how the location data works.<\/p>\n
I agree that it might be invasive to a lot of people. It might make them nervous, but there\u2019s nobody there spying on you. They might be spying on Steph Curry because they think he\u2019s a big star and they might like to know what clubs the guy\u2019s going to at night. But mostly this location data is used for targeted advertising, and the genie\u2019s out of the bottle on it. I mean, you can even turn location data off on your phone and you can still be tracked by GPS. It\u2019s just the way the devices are made. But that\u2019s not my primary focus.<\/p>\n
I could spend hours talking to you about the premise of location services, location data, the pros and cons and all that. What I really want to talk about is how the Google CEO flat-out denied that they are biased in any way. This, to me, is far more ominous and threatening than whatever they\u2019re doing with location data. I know it may be hard for some people to realize, but there just aren\u2019t that many people who care where you\u2019re going and what you\u2019re doing. Whether they be at Google or whether they\u2019re at Amazon or whether they\u2019re at Apple or wherever they are. Huawei, Samsung.<\/p>\n
But this business of denying that they\u2019re engaging in bias on their search engine? Now, to me that is deadly serious. You\u2019ve got these guys asking, “What are you doing about making sure the Russians don\u2019t have any further efforts, successful efforts to damage our elections in the upcoming year?” And these guys have to act like that they missed it, that they blew it, that the Russians did all kinds of horrible, crazy things. But they didn\u2019t!<\/p>\n
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The amount of impact the Russians had on our elections via Google and other social media is a pittance compared to the impact the local Drive-By Media has with the stuff they flood social media with that then ends up many news digests and gets amplified and repeated by users! The Russians can\u2019t keep up with what domestic media organizations are doing in terms of social media, polluting it and so forth with bias. But for this guy to deny that there was any bias whatsoever in the Google search engine?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just an insult to everybody\u2019s intelligence. It\u2019s not even close to being accurate — and of course the Democrats are not interested in pursuing that side of it, because the bias benefits them. But, I mean… (chuckles) Just search any well-known Republican or conservative on Google and take a look at what the first four or five results are, and I\u2019ll guarantee you they\u2019re gonna be unflattering and they\u2019re gonna be pointed toward extremism or racism or bigotry or some such thing. Nazi.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re gonna see the word “Nazi” in some search results after you throw in a Republican or conservative name. For these guys to sit here and deny it and say, “We\u2019re doing everything we can to prevent it.” Meanwhile, they\u2019re creating a special search engine for China where the ChiCom government will tell them what they can and cannot have on their search engine, what they can and cannot search, and what search results they can and cannot produce.<\/p>\n
Google is bending over and grabbing the ankles and saying, “Yes, sir, yes, sir,” because it\u2019s 800 million people, close to a billion. They want the market. So whatever the ChiCom communist government tells Google to do, they\u2019re gonna do it. Eric Schmidt, the CEO emeritus of Google, practically had an office in the Obama West Wing! Google was the data organization for the Obama presidential campaign. These guys sit here and deny that they have any kind of political bias? I\u2019m just telling you, that is a far greater threat to our, quote-unquote, “great democracy” than whatever they\u2019re doing with location data happens to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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