- Tulsi sues Google over supsended ad account (Jimmy Dore) Archived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov
on August 1, 2019, 7:55 am
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[url= Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is suing Google over complaints that the search engine censored her presidential campaign by suspending her advertising campaign for several hours last month. The Hawaiian Democratic representative said in a statement that the suspension came shortly after the first debate when Gabbard was one of the most-searched Democrats. She also alleges that Google's algorithms send her campaign emails to spam folders at a disproportionately high rate. "In the hours following the first debate, while millions of Americans search for info about Tulsi, Google suspended her search ad account [without] explanation," the campaign said. "It is vital to our democracy that big tech companies can't affect the outcome of elections." Just by accident I saw the NYT coverage of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/tulsi-gabbard-sues-google.html and they can't help sticking knives in every chance they get: Representative Tulsi Gabbard, the long-shot presidential candidate from Hawaii, said in a federal lawsuit that Google infringed on her free speech when it briefly suspended her campaign’s advertising account after the first Democratic debate in June. In a twist that reflects Ms. Gabbard’s unorthodox political views, the claim that her speech was stifled by Google is similar to complaints made over the last year in Republican circles. Few Democrats have raised similar concerns. I'm so glad I don't have to read their shit very often. |
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