Pull my other leg. See my article on Google’s pro-Islam bias below the Breitbart excerpt.
“Google CEO Sundar Pichai Claims Employees Can’t Manipulate Algorithms and Aren’t Biased,” by Charlie Nash, Breitbart, December 11, 2018:
After Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai about reports of Google’s bias against conservatives during Pichai’s hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, Pichai denied any bias, dodged questions, and claimed human employees were unable to manipulate algorithms.
“Google has revolutionized the world, though not entirely in the way I expected. Americans deserve the facts objectively reported,” declared Rep. Smith. “The muting of conservative voices by platforms has intensified, especially during the presidency of Donald Trump. More than 90 percent of all Internet searches take place on Google or its subsidiary YouTube, and they are curating what we see.”
“Google has long faced criticism for manipulating search results to censor conservatives. Conservative individuals and organizations have had their pro-Trump content tagged as ‘hate speech,’ or had their content reduced in search results. An enforcement of immigration laws has been tagged as hate speech as well. Such actions pose a grave threat to our democratic forum of government,” he continued. “PJ Media found that 96 percent of search results for Trump were from liberal media outlets. In fact, not a single right-leaning site appeared on the first page of search results. This doesn’t happen by accident, but is baked into the algorithms. Those who write the algorithms get the results they must want, and apparently, management allows it. Dr. Robert Epstein, a Harvard-trained psycologist authored a study recently that showed Google’s bias likely swung 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Google could well elect the next president with dire implications for our democracy. This should be a real concern to all but the most politically partisan. Those at the top set the tone. It will require a Herculean effort by the Chief Executive and senior management to change the political bias now programmed into the company’s culture.”…
Pichai said, “It is not possible for an individual employee or groups of employees to manipulate our search results. We have a robust framework, including many steps in the process.” Smith disagreed, saying: “I disagree, I think humans can manipulate the process. It is a human process at its base.”…
“Blasphemy? Google Has an App For That,” by Robert Spencer, FrontPage, December 11, 2018:
At last: “a new Android app,” Laura Loomer reported at Big League Politics on Sunday, “has launched with the focus of allowing Muslims to report individuals who commit blasphemy, or insult Islam.” Now, if you’re a pious Muslim, if you see something, you can say something, and make sure that those who dare to criticize the Left’s favored religion will henceforth be able to say nothing.
Big League Politics explains that “the app, ‘Smart Pakem’, which launched in Indonesia last month at the request of the Indonesian government, will allow users and government officials to uphold Sharia law and target and report people who hold ‘misguided’ beliefs in violation of Islamic law, which forbids insults of Islam, insults against the Prophet Mohammed, or the recognition of any other religion besides Islam.”
Why not? After all, we’re all Sharia-compliant now, or getting there fast, and Google has been leading the way for quite some time. Anwar Awlaki’s al-Qaeda recruitment lectures were offered in Google Play store app. And in 2017, Texas imam Omar Suleiman made a successful effort to compel Google to drop search results about Islam-related terms and topics that reflected negatively upon Islam. The jihad against the freedom of speech is advancing rapidly, and most people don’t even know it’s happening. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported that “Google’s first page results for searches of terms such as ‘jihad’, ‘shariah’ and ‘taqiyya’ now return mostly reputable explanations of the Islamic concepts. Taqiyya, which describes the circumstances under which a Muslim can conceal their belief in the face of persecution, is the sole term to feature a questionable website on the first page of results.”
“Reputable” according to whom? “Questionable” according to whom? Why, Omar Suleiman, of course. Who else? And while Allah leads astray those whom he wills (Qur’an 14:4, 74:31, etc.), dear old Omar wouldn’t do so, would he? Google doesn’t seem to have considered that possibility; Google execs swallowed uncritically everything he said, and dutifully buried all search results remotely critical of Islam.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Google has enlisted in the Islamic war against the freedom of speech and years-long attempt to force Sharia blasphemy laws upon non-Muslims worldwide. Allum Bokhari reported in Breitbart in October revealed that “a leaked Google briefing titled ‘The Good Censor’ advises tech companies to move away from the ‘American tradition’ of free speech if they wish to attract advertising revenue and continue global expansion.”
The Google briefing “explains that tech companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter initially leaned towards an ‘American tradition’ of free speech that prioritizes ‘free speech for democracy, not civility.’ But it goes on to say that the same companies now embrace the ‘European tradition,’ that favors ‘dignity over liberty, and civility over freedom.’”
And, as is clear now from this new Google App, the Islamic tradition that holds Allah, the Qur’an, Muhammad, and the religion of Islam as a whole to be above any criticism or negative words, including even accurate reporting about the motivating ideology behind the jihad terror threat.
Meanwhile, Australia’s 9 News reported Friday that former Scotland Yard police chief Mark Rowley warned that social media was a “furtive ground for prospective terrorists.” Said Rowley: “What we were used to wrestling with were terror networks, secret cells, secret organisations working very, very privately behind closed doors. What ISIS did was to completely flip that around and using social media, using the internet — they basically became open source.”
Rowley added: “So, there is a million and one ways the tech world is affecting us all, isn’t there? And a lot of them are fantastic and positive. But the negative edge to it needs more attention and I think we need these companies to get more proactive at helping us fix it.”
Certainly the social media giants will get on this right away – just as soon as they’ve finished banning and blocking everyone who stands against the jihad terrorists’ motivating ideology. Google’s embrace of Sharia blasphemy laws is an ominous sign of how eager the social media monopolies are to discard the freedom of speech and to align with the enablers and abettors of jihad terror. And it isn’t just Google: Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July 2017 to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. And then Mark Rowley thinks they will turn around and fight terrorism? Does he expect them to betray their friends and allies?
Photo by Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italy – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pestoverde/15059553219/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42454832
mortimer says
GOOGLE IS CLEARLY PRACTICING CENSORSHIP. We observe this every day.
There is an obvious DEMOTION of all counterjihad materials and PREFERENTIAL FEATURING of ‘MODERATE’ and ‘MODERNIZING’ interpretations of Islam which are (by the way) HERETICAL according to the ‘CONSENSUS’ of Islam.
Any Muslim who attempts to modernize Islam is guilty of BIDA (innovation).
When you search for terms like taqiyya, jihad, beheading, FGM, you only get modernizing explanations on google.
Googletranslate accurately translates : Jesus eats s***, Buddha eats s*** and Zoroaster eats s***. But when you query Mohammed eats s***, the result is merely ‘Mohammed eats’.
Sundar Pichai would collapse on the stand under oath … he would go to jail for perjury.
Dawne says
Yes – I googled “what is Jihad” and this was the top answer:
“Jihad is a core concept in the Muslim religion, and in its Islamic context, it has two primary meanings: to struggle for the betterment of oneself within the guidelines of Islam, and to struggle for the betterment of all mankind by spreading the influence of Islam and the Muslim prophet Muhammad.”
And they say that Google is not biased?!
mortimer says
FOR DAWNE … what is the ‘official’ definition of jihad … here it is …
The following commentary is as close to an “official” definition of jihad as we can get. It is contained in the footnotes on p.39, ‘The Noble Koran’, published by King Fahd Complex for Publication of the Quran, Madinah, KSA.
“Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite.” – footnotes on p.39, ‘The Noble Koran’, published by King Fahd Complex for Publication of the Quran, Madinah, KSA.
Westman says
“It is not possible for an individual employee or groups of employees to manipulate our search results. We have a robust framework, including many steps in the process.”
This is like pornography, you know a tremendous lie when you see it. As someone who programmed data bearing computers for a living, I can assure you that no one has absolute control over programmers, regardless of protocols. Google manipulates search results for paid results to businesses which creates a vector for manipulation for other intentions.
Pachai can no more control the left bias of his programmers and their actions than he can control his auto mechanic; he is too removed from the process,
mortimer says
Thanks, WM, very well said and said authoritatively by an insider. Pichai is an amazing kind of liar. Tens of thousands of coders know he’s lying through his teeth. He is insulting the intelligence of the general public.
peter says
You hit the nail on the head .He will do anything to keep his job and toe the official line .
mortimer says
GOOGLE CEO Sundar Pichai claims …
“IT ISN’T CENSORSHIP or BIAS when WE DO IT.”
RonaldB says
I’m very uncomfortable with the idea of the US government intruding into the content of the social media, even in the face of Google memos reflecting the determination of some engineers to cook search results. Recall that the election of Trump resulted, in part, from the ability of Deplorables to access true information about the effects of immigration and the malevolence of Islam. The problem was not that the information had to be searched for, but that the traditional mainstream media had a stranglehold on the dissemination of information. Once the information became available, even if people had to be especially vigilant to access it, Trump’s election was possible.
I do think there are ways to soften the effect of international companies like Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter when they seek profits by pandering to Islamic countries.
First thing is to do away with dual citizenship. Second is to require US citizens to be the heads of US companies. Third is to require that all foreign branches of a company register as a US company and be treated as a foreign-run company in other countries. No more foreign-owned subsidiaries sharing the benefits of US registration. All operating branches of a company will stay strictly under US law. They can deal with foreign companies as customers or suppliers, rather than as relatives.
Sundar Pichai apparently gave up his Indian citizenship in favor of being a US citizen, which raises him in my estimation. I think it’s a mistake to allow companies to operate as US companies, while still having foreign subsidiaries under the jurisdiction of foreign governments.
gravenimage says
Yes–the government getting involved in censorship might be even more harmful.
Dawne says
I just don’t understand why the hard left can be in favour of sharia law or the principles of Islam. Is it simply that they are too stupid to see the fundamental clash with their own beliefs?
mortimer says
Dawne, the Left is NOT in favor of Sharia, but in favor of CENSORSHIP. They see the censoring of their political opponents as the goal. However they manage to bring about censorship is not important.
The ‘progressive’ Left is actually making a MEPHISTOPHELIAN BARGAIN with the Islamic devil.
Both Islam hates the godless Left while the godless Left hates Islam.
They are in a mutually dance of deception in this contract between liars.
Yokel says
And when either the godless Left or Islam decides that their useful idiots (ie Islam or the godless Left respectively) have now ceased to be useful, it will be an interesting fight (not!).
Please that I can stay far enough away from it to enjoy the popcorn.
Elisha says
Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. – 2 Corinthians 4:4
That’s why. We are in a spiritual war (Ephesians 6:12). It’s the same reason seemingly intelligent people can believe nothing can “create” everything, ie the philosophical delusion of Darwinism. People hate truth and love their sins. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12.
peter says
That is because we in this country tolerate all nonsense and do not shoot these traitors unlike muslims !
mortimer says
peter, NONSENSE to you is FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION TO ME AND I DEFEND THAT.
gravenimage says
Most Leftists have no idea what Shari’ah is about, yet sneer at the idea that it can be anything harmful. One Leftist I talked to literally put her hands over her ears so she would not have to hear anything negative about it.
Michael Copeland says
Google not biased?
Try this test.
Ask Google for this article: “How Not To Build A Country: Inheritance Tax”.
Note that this is nothing to do with Islam.
Google will not show it (it comes from a site that does have material critical of Islam).
Enter the same into DuckDuckGo: it is the first item shown.
QED
gravenimage says
You are quite right, Michael. Liberty GB is a conservative and Counter-Jihad site.
Also, the first time I’d used Duck Duck Go, even though I had heard of it. I have to see if it is better for “googling” old stories on Jihad Watch–Google used to be pretty good; not so much anymore.
mortimer says
Yes, GI, we should all switch to DUCK DUCK GO because it doesn’t CENSOR searches like GOOGLE CENSORS SEARCHES.
Google is BIASED against the counterjihad and against patriots.
Walter Sieruk says
The message needs to be made known to the Google chief as well as all the Muslims who live in the United States of America who dislike and maybe even despise the US Constitution and would like to replace it with Sharia law. Those same Muslims instead in trying to force Sharia law on American citizens and their nation those are free to leave and really should leave the USA and then go to live in either Shii ‘ite, Iran or Sunni , Saudi Arabia if they actually feel the Sharia law is the grand, great and wonderful .
Moreover, all this is a strong reminder of the wise words declared by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech. “There can be no fifty –fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism , only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
TWG says
Bold-faced LIAR.
The smugness is jaw dropping.
But then, we have come to expect nothing more and nothing less than lies from these heinous islammunists.
FYI says
Google
Is buraq real?
check images
{buraq is muhammed’s magical Winged Flying Horse..with a HUMAN face…}
See the images.Is a cartoon of buraq insulting to islam?..as in some pictures..OH NO!..it seems muhammed is depicted on his magical flying horse….!!
Discuss:
were the artists being “islamophobic”?were they insulting islam?were they insulting islam’s prophet by depicting him on his magical horse?
FYI says
imran khan and the pakistanis will go mad:surely Google will have to take down the pictures of buraq with muhammed depicted riding on top..we don’t want rioting muslims complaining about caricatures of their prophet muhammed.
muhammed depicted on his magical winged flying horse….Google better get to work right away censoring that…
Tony46 says
Too bad for him that we grew up smarter in this technological war they created…
gravenimage says
As evidence of Google’s hard-Left, pro-Sharia bias mounts, Google top dog claims Google isn’t biased
………………………..
It has become obvious to just about everyone that this is bs.
David M says
Democrat Rep Lieu would love to get rid of free speech & the First Amendment:
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiDjZ6qwZ7fAhVHFHIKHeznAFAQxfQBMAN6BAgAEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics.com%2Fvideo%2F2018%2F12%2F12%2Fdem_rep_lieu_i_would_love_to_regulate_free_speech_but_its_better_in_the_long_run_not_to.html&usg=AOvVaw1mKPiJ53Ow9jwB_SOTkEe1
INFIDEL says
As an Indian.. let me say..as much as I appreciate Sundar Picchai’s accomplishments in his field and his stratospheric rise in Google… HE HAS DISGRACED HIMSELF BY PANDERING TO THE LEFT AND ANTI AMERICAN FORCES. It is only America and its free opportunities that has made him what he is today and he has turned his back on it.. SHAME ON U LEFTIST LIBTARD PICCHAI.. U ARE A DISGRACE
eduardo odraude says
David Wood’s excellent video about Facebook removing “blasphemous” material at the request of the Pakistani government, and apparently helping Pakistan identify blasphemers so they can be prosecuted and get the Pakistani death penalty for blasphemy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoq1JAuzRfM
tgusa says
I don’t like what this foreigner is doing to my country, not one bit. We would be better off without him. Can you please go home Pichai and I will thank you to never return. We don’t need you, you wont be missed.
Jack Holan says
If Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Hugo Chavez,,King Faisal , and the WW2 threesom; Joel Kalan would Cryout ‘ Lets Make a Deal ‘