Google CEO responds to Steve King's iPhone concerns: 'Congressman, iPhone is mad
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https://thehill.com/policy/technology/420838-google-ceo-responds-to-steve-king-concerns-about-granddaughters-iphone
Pichai responded to the question by clarifying that Google does not make the iPhone.
King rebutted, saying the phone might have been an Android instead.
Pichai told the congressman he could follow up with him once he better understood the specifics as to what King was referring to.
The US congress are too fucking old for the 21st century, who'd have thought.
He's even holding an iPhone in the picture.
"Might have been an Android"
Unless it's someone else's phone, I just see it as someone trying to shift the blame.
I had a real estate agent from work get mad at me because our companies website (which was a week old) wasnt on the front page of google.
Since all this is happening, even more results near the top of 'idiot' are pictures of Donald Trump, all from news articles.
The Streisand effect is the greatest part of the internet of all time
You can't hide anything. You can't control anything.
In one exchange, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) asked Pichai whether he had ever directed an employee to manipulate search results. Pichai explained that it’s not possible for one person, or even a group of people, to do that because there are so many steps in the process.
But Smith did not accept that explanation, telling Pichai: “Let me just say, I disagree. I think humans can manipulate the process. It is a human process at its base.”
"I disagree with facts" is pretty much the republican slogan by now. Also...
Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) complained that when he googled the Republican health-care bill or the GOP tax cuts the first several pages listed negative articles. “How do you explain this apparent bias on Google’s part against conservative points of view, against conservative policies? Is it just the algorithm, or is there more happening there?” Chabot asked.
Complaining that reality has a leftist bias.
It really sucks because these fuckers really deserve to get grilled but because it's just a bunch of decrepit fucking mummies who couldn't tell a phone from a handmirror it always just turns into "Grandma's Tech Support Corner" instead.
so this dude is mad at google because he's being derided for being a racist piece of shit?
So are the baby boomers who vote for Republicans 100 percent of the time. Remember, some of them still don't even have a fucking email address. They specifically make track phones that are even simpler than the ones you can buy at wal-mart (I'm talking so bare-bones that they have literally no other functions other than calling people). I happen to know this because I saw ads for them all the time in The National Review, back in my ignorant conservative days. I still don't understand why it took me so long to figure out that damn magazine wasn't aimed at my demographic - in fact I'm pretty sure the people who write for that magazine loathe millennials just as much as millennials loathe baby-boomers.
Where's the "funny but depressing" rating?
Not only that, but his campaign probably also participates in political attack ads.
The hypocrisy of the GOP knows no bounds.
The Congresswoman asking the "idiot" question is a Democrat so would be unlikely to be upset if more Trump pictures start appearing in the results because of this
ted lieu's response to all these absolute idiots is pretty great
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1072576369299738624
I was expecting him to be a smartass and just say "Well, have you been awake for the last year or so?!"
this is truly this generation's crowning achievement. vietnam protesters got nothing on these kids
remember back in the day when Facepunch was the #1 result for "fucking incredible" because people kept hiding it in their editlines in their posts?
This is basically new hip evil dragging old dumb evil around by the nose.
Well that was back when you could game the system of course. It didn't even last that long before they fixed it after people found out and started really abusing it.
Still, it was pretty fucking incredible.
Reminder: This is Steve King's legacy
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That guy is totally unrelated to the Iowa Steve King
Shit really? Never mind then lol
Is this the congressional equivalent of a sick burn?
You guys are laughing at her but Lofgren is a democrat and she's just asking how it works.
laughing at the results too though
Oh fuck the iPhone is mad. Run!
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