OK, so we saw the nonsense that happened when Sundar Pichai was testifying before Congress. Personally, I think certain members of the committee knew exactly what they were doing. They may not know how Google works, but they know how to stoke the fires of their rabid base, who definitely don't know how it works and are looking for reasons to feel persecuted.
What really bugs me is the fact that there is an important and nuanced discussion about how Google manages its search engine and how they are collecting data, but a bunch of show boating charlatans are using that discussion to pander to conspiracy theorists.
Google is tracking us and collecting way more data than we can understand in ways most people would never dream of. And they are ubiquitous enough that they are almost a public utility.
So while yesterday's circus had both funny moments (White Supremacist Steve King wanting to know why search results related to him keep producing pages about him being a white supremacist) and kind of scary moments (white supremacist Steve King wanting a list of the political leanings of employees of a private company), the really important stuff was downplayed. Representatives on both sides of the aisle actually brought up some important questions.
Google does track us and they do manipulate searches, just not in the way we saw in those funny clips. So, what place does the US, or any nation's, government have in regulating them?
What really bugs me is the fact that there is an important and nuanced discussion about how Google manages its search engine and how they are collecting data, but a bunch of show boating charlatans are using that discussion to pander to conspiracy theorists.
Google is tracking us and collecting way more data than we can understand in ways most people would never dream of. And they are ubiquitous enough that they are almost a public utility.
So while yesterday's circus had both funny moments (White Supremacist Steve King wanting to know why search results related to him keep producing pages about him being a white supremacist) and kind of scary moments (white supremacist Steve King wanting a list of the political leanings of employees of a private company), the really important stuff was downplayed. Representatives on both sides of the aisle actually brought up some important questions.
Google does track us and they do manipulate searches, just not in the way we saw in those funny clips. So, what place does the US, or any nation's, government have in regulating them?
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