Discussion: Google's Congressional Grilling Foreshadows Hurdles For Tech Companies

They should’ve asked things like when he last called his mother, what he last bought online, his most common route to work. You know, Google collectibles.

Senator Warner shows signs of getting it. House Democrats should walk down the hall and talk to him. (Don’t call or text!)

This is the new frontier of fraud, and apps will be the next mortgage backed securities before this is over.

Let us never forget what kind of brain trust is currently in control of Congress:

Rep. Steve King: “I have a 7-year-old granddaughter who picked up her phone during the election, and she’s playing a little game, the kind of game a kid would play. And up on there pops a picture of her grandfather. And I’m not going to say into the record what kind of language was used around that picture of her grandfather, but I’d ask you: how does that show up on a 7-year-old’s iPhone, who’s playing a kid’s game?”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai: “Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company.”

January 3, 2019 can’t possibly come soon enough.

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Questions that answer themselves

Rep. Zoe Lofgren asks Google CEO why she got Trump pictures when she searched for ‘idiot’

WASHINGTON – Rep. Zoe Lofgren wants to know why so many pictures of President Donald Trump appear when she does a Google search for “idiot.”

“Right now, if you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that,” the California Democrat told Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington.

“How would that happen? How does search work so that would occur?” Lofgren asked Pichai. The Google CEO – who was at the hearing to address allegations of political bias in his company’s widely used search engine – said the results are based on billions of keywords ranked according to more than 200 factors such as relevance and popularity.

“So it’s not some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we’re going to show the user?” Lofgren asked rhetorically. “It’s basically a compilation of what users are generating.”

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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at some of the questions asked.The power of having the whole world’s knowledge in the palm of your hand and they don’t understand how and why it works.

Actual Google Images search I did yesterday morning after she said that.

Truth Hurts :joy:

And azzwipe Steve King wants a list of Google employees so that “he can check that they are true patriots” what the fuck…