We’ve talked before about how Google is actively suppressing climate skeptics, including yours truly.
The business motto for Google used to be:“Don’t be evil.”, seen below as archived by the Wayback Machine on April 21, 2018:
“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably, and treating co-workers with courtesy and respect.
“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably, and treating co-workers with courtesy and respect.
The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put “Don’t be evil” into practice. It’s built around the recognition that everything we do in connection with our work at Google will be, and should be, measured against the highest possible standards of ethical business conduct. We set the bar that high for practical as well as aspirational reasons: Our commitment to the highest standards helps us hire great people, build great products, and attract loyal users. Trust and mutual respect among employees and users are the foundation of our success, and they are something we need to earn every day.
Then, in a stunning turnaround, they removed the phrase from their website, giving themselves a license to follow the dark side.
By now you may have heard about the in-house “private” Google video (created right after the 2016 presidential election) leaked to Breitbart. It was never intended that the public see it. Fortunately, we have. After Trump won the election the video shows the Google management team doing group hugs, tears, and wailing about how Trump won and how Hillary was wronged.
It’s quite revealing. In the video we have the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, two Vice Presidents and the two men who founded Google in 1998; Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
The opinions expressed in that video were in my opinion, outrageous. Basically the Google execs saw American voters who voted for Trump as irrational, xenophobic, lazy, and stupid. Brin suggests that Trump voters were acting out of “boredom”, which he says has in the past have been one of the factors giving rise to fascism and communism.
Google has since issued a rebuttal saying this was just some employees and executives expressing their own personal opinion, saying “For 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings”
In their rebuttal, Google claims that nothing those executives said in that video suggests any political bias in their products.
I don’t buy it, not one bit.
The Google CFO in that video, Ruth Porat, is a perfect example She gets highly emotional, to the point of tears and talks about the moment she realized the election was “…going the wrong way”, and then the first moment she realized “WE were going to lose. It was like a “ton of bricks”.
Later in the video, the Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, asks what they can do to ensure a “better quality of governance and decision-making.”
Newsflash: Google HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GOVERNMENT DECISION-MAKING. For Brin to suggest they need ensure a “better quality” is a tacit admission of their intent to bias in a way they see fit.
Here’s excerpts from the Breitbart story:
THE GOOGLE TAPE: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin ‘Deeply Offended’ by Trump’s Election
Allum Bokhari, Breitbart
Sergey Brin, co-founder of one of the most influential companies in the world:
““As an immigrant and a refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive, and I know many of you do too.”
Walker says that Google should fight to ensure the populist movement – not just in the U.S. but around the world – is merely a “blip” and a “hiccup” in a historical arc that “bends toward progress.”
CEO Sundar Pichai states that the company will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat what an employee described as “misinformation” shared by “low-information voters.”
Here’s another story, from the Powerline Blog
Powerline: It’s Official, Google Is a Democratic Party Front
All of the speakers express grief over Donald Trump’s election. All of the speakers assume that every Google employee is a Democrat and is stunned and horrified that Hillary Clinton–the worst and most corrupt presidential candidate in modern history–lost. There is much discussion about what Google can do to reverse the benighted world-wide tide exemplified by Brexit and Trump’s election. The insane doctrine of “white privilege” rears its head.
You really have to see it to believe it. Having suffered through the hour-long cri de cœur–OK, to be fair, there is a huge element of schadenfreude, too, and you will relish much of it–you probably will have several reactions:
1) These people may have certain valuable technical skills, but they aren’t very bright and are unusually lacking in self-awareness.
2) It is remarkable that they can achieve such an extraordinary monoculture in an organization with thousands of employees. It must require vigorous enforcement of right-think.
3) It is easy to see how these uniformly left-wing robots/people seamlessly transitioned into Resisting the duly elected Trump administration.
The video:
So, what can you do?
Dump Google. Dump Gmail and searching via Google
When searching, I recommend DuckDuckGo, and Mojeek. Of the two, Mojeek is the better tool in my opinion, becuase it doesn’t make use of a Google oriented indexing library.
UPDATE:
An email obtained exclusively by ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ reveals that a senior Google employee deployed the company’s resources to increase voter turnout in ways she believed would help Clinton win the election.
My very accomplished son interned at Google between first and second years at HBS. He got an offer to join, and declined, for exactly these reasons. The personal experience stories he told about Google were horrific—just from a summer ‘schmooze’ internship. And worse than these reports. ‘Do no evil’ is an inverse projection of what they do. If they could make a buck selling your soil to the Devil, they would. And you would never know until later.
The devil is NOT getting MY soil!
Another former insider, James Damore, is partially vindicated by this video.
No jocks or prom queens here. They’re all still pissed that they were treated like geeks in school. Natural born leftists.
Yes, and weepy geeks at that. A hug and a cry is what they want. And mommy.
What browser is iPhone using and is there an alternative if necessary?
Apple uses Safari and can’t be replaced as the default.
iPhone is made by Apple, so it uses Apple’s Safari. One alternative browser I use on my Android phone is Firefox Focus, which is available on iOS devices like the iPhone.
At one time, all liberals supported a law suit that objected to Microsoft even including a browser with it’s operating system. A browser that could easily be removed or replaced as the default browser with a simple system setting.
“A browser that could easily be removed”
M$ told it couldn’t (not without major side effects). lol
Anyway the IE story was a complete distraction from the extreme monopoly abuses of M$.
In addition to not using google to search with, we can also modify our hosts file in our computers to stop google analytics and other goggly sites from getting our info and profiting from it.
Good idea.
One could also use a proxy server which would keep Google from identifying you, or you could use StartPage com, which uses Google to do the search, but prevents Google from seeing who is initiating the search. This way, Google doesn’t get any personal information from such searches, and getting personal information is the way they make money.
Be aware that Google Search is embedded in many ‘smart’ TVs as well.
When buying a new TV, I’d suggest one with ROKU or similar over any with embedded Google.
Hmmn what is it they say about the banality of evil.
Google seems to be a model study in groupthink
-Ruth Porat from Google @13:40
“That was the first moment I really felt like we were going to lose”
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HotScot
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/21/google-big-brother-knows-best/
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I’m pretty certain it’s shareholders are Capitalists, through and through. Capitalist investors are inherently wary of getting involved with political movements, they inevitably fail. To suggest Google is somehow a nest of socialist conspiracy theorists is becoming less credible to me with each article Kip posts.
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HotScot
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Investors in Google are not interested in political imperatives, it restricts their route to profit. Advertisers are not interested in political bias, they sell to anyone. If Google sided with socialism as is frequently maintained, they would likely alienate the vast majority of their devoutly Capitalist investors.
Is there a clandestine management group at the top of Google with a socialist imperative? Hardly likely as Google is well invested in Capitalism and knows what side it’s bread is buttered on. Drive a socialist agenda and Google risks being nationalised, or banned altogether as a subversive influence were socialism to swamp us.
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HotScot
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Roger Knights
Google and the rest are conforming to the laws of the countries they operate in. That’s not political.
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Quod Erat Demonstrandum
“For 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings””
Riiiight. When 99% of the people at the company, including leadership, is vocally on one side of a question, I’m sure that encourages people to voice dissenting opinions. Watch their social credit take a nosedive as they become persona-non-grata. Watch as people wonder if their views are being used against them when deciding which person is preferred for promotion.
The monoculture is designed to drive out dissenters of their own “free will.”
And that is different from the Catholic Church?
What does the Catholic Church have to do with any of this?
ReallySkeptical
you really really need to turn on Brain before operating mouth and typing.
Okay I will give you that one. So are you saying that, ah google has a pedophilia problem?
o mój Boże !
michael
The Church is upfront about what it believes. When you join it you agree to its beliefs. Google isn’t a religion, but from leaks from the company, they are acting like one. You even slightly question ‘doctrine’ and you are out. And they aren’t upfront about what they will or will not tolerate.
And watch RS demonstrate that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
Ah. The Catholic Church – another common enemy of progressives – and one they are currently attempting to take over.
How many that really did that over the 20 years are still there?
“I’m pretty certain it’s shareholders are Capitalists, through and through. Capitalist investors are inherently wary of getting involved with political movements, they inevitably fail. ”
Wow, two very weak assumptions, and from that you conclude that the author must be wrong.
“Advertisers are not interested in political bias”
Easy rebutal.
Nike and Kapearnick.
@Khwarizmi
Uhm, no.
There are only 3 shareholders that matter. The Big Three: Eric, Larry, and Sergei. They have enough voting rights between them to control the company.
Alphabet is a multiple share class company.
The Big Three own Class B shares with 10 votes each. Class A shares (GOOGL) get 1 vote each and Class C shares (GOOG) get no votes. The Class C shares were introduced to keep the Class B shares from getting too many votes via stock splits and acquisitions. According to Investopedia, Class A shares have about 61% of the votes leaving 39% of votes for the Class B shares.
If the Big Three want to sell their Class B shares, they have to convert them to Class A shares first.
If the Big Three are rabid Hillary supporters, Alphabet gets nudged towards supporting Hillary. The Big Three are rich enough that $100 million is a rounding error on their net worth, so they are likely not worried about a little politics knocking a little off of their net worth. If it does, they likely view it as a charitable contribution to the greater good (as taught by their ideology/religion).
One issue with Alphabet and Facebook is that they are not sufficiently profit-driven, even though they are insanely profitable. Instead, they are driven by a destructive ideology. Though of course, they see themselves as being on the side of the angels, but I know better 🙂
Umm, I was quoting the debunked talking points regurgitated by HotScot.
e.g.: “Investors in Google are not interested in political imperatives” – HotScot
Sergey Brin is an immigrant and refugee from Russia
Brin is a legal immigrant.
We like legal immigrants.
We deport illegal immigrants.
SO, that makes it legal to swing the election in the direction HE (or Russia) desires? Like Google did with the latinos – which backfired on them.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/memo-google-tried-to-help-hillary-win-by-driving-latino-vote.php
Indeed. This is literally a case of a Russian attempting to change the result of the US election.
For Clinton.
When does the investigation start?
when hell freezes over… Russians investigated only to impeach Trump
Google wonders out loud what they can do to assure better quality of governance and decision making — the answer is to assure that there is NO interference or sorting, of any kind, on any information sought or presented to the ‘internet’ and that free speech is protected by allowing and encouraging ALL views presented to be accessible to anyone searching.
You are wasting your breath, NW. The Google people are true socialist believers. It shows in everything they say.
Their focus now is to try to undo the Trump effect which they consider an aberration.
Knowing the tech game from several directions how do we really know that search engines such as DuckDuckGo or Mojeek do not have leadership and employees that are just as far left. Like teachers and those in climate science the techies come out of the same environments, educated by the same schools, socialized with the same people.
I managed a large agencies tech bureau. I knew of very few conservatives, though we did have some. However they would never, ever let it out among their fellow techies that they were.
Tell that to James Damore.
Leftists make exceptions in their free speech policies for hate speech.
The problem is that they define anything they disagree with as hate speech.
This unexpected event may give Microsoft’s Bing search engine a sufficient user base to become profitable and stay the course vs. Google. Previously they were a half-billion dollare money loser.
Gmail isn’t necessary if one is inside the Apple ecosystem and uses its Mail product.
I have a computer that is practically an antique. Yes, I need to replace it, but so far, nothing I have tried to find on Google, which is preferable to MSN’s absolutely gag-me-with-a-spoon trash, has been blocked for me, nor have I been prevented from finding anything I’m looking for as long as I am very specific about what I want to find.
Hasn’t blocked me from finding WUWT, period. I do know that if you have your own server, they can’t stop you, period.
Don’t use g-mail, despise Microsoft’s desperate greed that puts ads on my non-premium Outlook, and wonder just how much arrogance these bozos will spout before they are sued into the ground for invasion of privacy.
I don’t care what they think of Trump. They can think anything they like. He won. The Dragon Queen didn’t. They can weep and wail all they want to in the outer darkness, but they do NOT own anything but a company that provides a service to people who want to use it – or not.
And for what it’s worth, if they think we’re heading for a Communist government, it’s because they support crap like Antifa and #metoo crap, and all the other social moron platforms that are nothing but a clowder of spoiled brats throwing tantrums. They’ve never lived under Communism. I know people who escaped it to come here and make lives for themselves.
What a bunch of nitwits they are.
If you have an ad blocker you won’t see any ads on Microsoft hotmail.
It’s worse than we thought. Google “EU internet” and see how they are trying to destroy the internet. For example,
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/tech-giants-eu-internet-searches-copyright-law
Meanwhile back in the land of Oz, dear old Aunty (ABC) thinks it is more important to tell you what you can and can’t pick up from someone else’s rubbish pile on the side of the road!!
Google Left Bias video … never heard of it!
Over the past decade Google has already completely manipulated the search results. Climate searches absolutely, now news too.
The EU also just voted in the most censorious regulations, in the faux cause of Copyright on top of GDPR, and the fake grass roots case that gave us “The right to be forgotten” that those in power use to have google not return their skulduggery in Google searches inside the EU.
“Populist” is nothing but a new word for Neo fascist.
I want the EU dismantled. I’m a centrist who leans left and right depending on the issues, anti war, pro good fiscal management, for socialist programs, for capitalist wealth generation. Pro conservation/environment, pro resource development and exploitation.
The biggest threat to this wealthy powerful progressive socialist bubble, are not far right types, it is the middle cross section who have reasonable arguments, ideas and commonsense. It’s not the ideas of the far right that expose the lunacy and authoritarianism and dare I say it, the very patriarchal mind set of the progressive left (irony) it is the ideas and logic of the cross section of the political sphere, the moderate right and the center and liberal center left
I’m definitely liberal, and as we seen with Google and Damore, being reasonable and honest, basing your stance on the best facts we have, this will get you called sexist, and even racist.
Google has become a cancer on the internet, along with the other tech giants in silicon valley.
We seen with the living Meme Alex Jones, that the leadership of these companies all work together, and I bet it is not recorded. It’s the same thing we see in Davos, but with tech companies deciding the future of the internet through their own political lens.
There needs to be political and legislative action, a few million people deleting their gmail won’t help, nor will a few million people not using google search.. because those that will make that change, are the very people Google now doesn’t want on their platform anyway.
It is dark times indeed.
Guess who comes up on top when you search for “climate change” on mojeek? WUWT!!!
People vote their wallets.
It’s not rocket science.
The coasts are mad because the flyover states will benefit from a Trump presidency more than they do. There are exceptions to the above rule. When everybody is doing well, they don’t think it will make a difference to their wallets, then they vote their hearts. That’s why the upcoming midterms could go Democrat, though the same pollsters claiming that said Trump would lose in 2016.
Google’d effort’s also include deranking to cause defunding some of our favorite sites as noted here [Thanks Kip!] “Google’s de-ranking efforts, since early June 2018, have resulted in a greater than 30% drop in search engine referrals — about 12,000 views/visitors lost per week. These particular lost referrals mean that new readers don’t arrive at the home page and don’t subsequently click through to one or more posts. Loss of “first-time” readers means a loss of the portion of those that would become regular readers. Lost page views (and some of them lost new visitors) equates to lost ad revenue for WUWT — as revenue erodes, the ability of Anthony Watts to keep WUWT on the web decreases.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/29/google-and-the-adjustment-of-inconvenient-viewpoints-especially-climate/
I just read / heard somewhere that eight Google employees have just quit over the company’s playing footsie with China.
Google dumped their “don’t be evil” facade a long time ago, probably when they got into bed with Al Gore. Recently they gave up having to constantly justify their questionable actions while prominently displaying their “don’t be evil” facade against what they are actually doing by dumping their “don’t be evil” facade instead.
There are many alternatives to Google. I use Bing and DDG but when I need something they cannot provide I usually find it on StartPage https://www.startpage.com/eng/?#hmb As a rule of thumb, if I cannot find it on StartPage I give up searching because it probably does not exist. As far as I can tell, StartPage is completely unbiased, will return links long-buried by Google, and their returns pages have a much better layout than Google, which has become extremely annoying lately.
startpage is biased. I just did a search on “climate change blog” and no results in the first four pages, with realclimate getting a first page slot.
If they tried to pull this shit in most corporations the ring leaders would be out on their ass . They appear to assume everyone voted for the Clinton . Why would they do that ? What was it a wake where they assume all employees are Democrats or is it a condition of employment ?
Sure looks like anyone that doesn’t play political ball better keep their mouth shut .
Really disappointed .
Freedom afforded by the internet should never be hijacked to preach political preferences to employees .
Sure people are upset when their horse doesn’t come in but that’s why we have elections .
The USA has a growing anti democracy problem . Superpacs and billionaires having way too much sway .
thanks for the tip about Mojeek, never heard of it before. My first question is , if they do not tracking and don’t profile users, how do they fund their business ?
It required some serious investment to build up that kind of hardware infrastructure and pay for the massive bandwidth needed to provide fast response for a global search engine.
Who is funding this service, and why ?
Mojeek is affiliated to eBuyer and other sellers and gets paid when you buy something using their link.
Note to self: Call in sick if/when chartered to move googlers. That much of Bravo-Sierra would exceed any known to mankind Maximum Takeoff Weight…
The theater piece is straight from CCF Frankfurt School – Kulturkampf, replacement of the so called Authoritarian Personality (nuclear family, renaissance view of man) with Eros.
All that group therapy touchy-feely stuff is exactly that. Google is a front for the Council for Cultural Freedom CCF, originally pulled into the new CIA. Just see Adorno’s book.
IFrom the book :”It is here that psychology may play its most important role. Techniques for overcoming resistance, developed mainly in the field of individual psychotherapy, can be improved and adapted for use with groups and even for use on a mass scale.”
…”We need not suppose that appeal to emotion belongs to those who strive in the direction of fas-c-ism, while democratic propaganda must limit itself to reason and restraint. If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fas-c-ism, Eros belongs mainly to democracy.“