Right wing conspiracy alert: Google is working for Obama!!!!

[SiriusDawg]

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/righ...ing_for_obama/

The right-wing has its own news network and its own version of Wikipedia. Is a conservative search engine the next natural step? That’s the only logical conclusion one can draw from a very worried post at RedState warning that Google may be operating as a “private intelligence agency” for the Democratic party.

I stress the word “may” here because author Ben Howe doesn’t include any, you know, evidence in his article demonstrating that Google is Obama’s secret weapon, but still, it’s pretty scary! — “Every time you use Google or Gmail you could be contributing just a little bit more of your behavioral data to the left.”


Howe’s working assumption is that the 2012 Obama campaign’s well-known superiority on the technological front could and should be linked to Google’s well-known leftist sympathies. (Joe Biden did a Google+ “hangout” on gun control! The company supports “net neutrality” — which everyone knows is just a whisker away from state seizure of the means of online production). From there it’s just a hop, skip, and jump to Google reading your email and reporting its contents to the commissars in the White House.

Remember that enormous, sophisticated data operation the Obama campaign had? The one that gave them massive daily data on public opinion trends in almost every segment of potential voters.


It’s almost as if Democrats had access to some sort of huge database of real time information about what the public was reading or writing online. The kind of breathtakingly large, real-time data that could be used for real-time trend analysis, predictive modeling and even behavioral manipulation.


Imagine how much more could be learned if Google’s computer algorithms combined not only search data but also all of the data they get by reading everything written in or sent to Gmail and whatever you store on Google docs and Google Drive. Then imagine what Democratic voter data groups like Catalist (which launched as a for-profit operation, allowing it much more latitude in working with outside groups….or companies) could do with that data.


With a few tweaks to their algorithms Google could easily have near perfect insights into the voting behaviors and patterns of the U.S. population at large down to specific precincts, neighborhoods or even households.

No doubt about it, Google knows a lot about us, and I’m as worried as anyone at the prospect of advertisers taking advantage of the data Google collects to engage in behavioral manipulation. (Although, from a classically conservative standpoint, I suppose that’s the kind of normal, laudable behavior we should expect from profit-seeking entities operating in a free market.) But I’d like a little more of a smoking gun before we start suggesting that every time we search for “crazy right-wing conspiracy theory” on Google we are helping to consolidate the Democratic party’s hold on power.


The most interesting thing about Howe’s piece is the way it zeroes in on Google’s ability to read our mail. The privacy alarm jibes quite nicely with the latest iteration of Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign, which warns with unbecoming stridency about how Google is reading everything you write to your loved ones, and targeting ads based on your content.


I continue to be befuddled by the spectacle of Microsoft, which makes a profit by screwing as much cash out of my pocket as possible, presenting itself as the good guy compared to the evil Google, which makes a profit by selling ads on a vast number of useful tools it makes available for me to use for free. And you can make a case that Microsoft is unfairly creating the impression in its ad campaign that real live Google employees are scanning your mail, which is of course not true at all. But the campaign isn’t the dumbest idea in the world. Privacy is a hot button issue for consumers, and I’m always surprised to learn how many people don’t realize that Google is targeting ads to them based on algorithmic crunching of keywords in their email.


I hope Microsoft goes even further — I’d love to see Microsoft back up its “Scroogled” campaign by lobbying for strong electronic privacy protections in new legislation. Such a stance would put the company at sharp odds with just about every other big tech company operating online.


But I think Microsoft is still missing the big market opportunity here. Conservatives seem to crave an alternative to Google. Microsoft is desperate to grab more market share for Bing.


Isn’t the solution obvious? With conservative blogs already warning that Google is a dangerous outfit of leftist sympathizers it’s time for Bing to start positioning itself as the Fox News of the search engine world.


Irony alert: the mastermind behind the Scroogled campaign is Mark Penn, the longtime Clinton political operative, a fact that would make a Microsoft shift to the right just a little juicy. But stranger things have happened in politics. And if conservatives are at the point where the only way to explain Barack Obama’s victory in 2012 is to assume he had some unfair Google-turboboosted advantage, they clearly need a search engine that will only return results that support their preconceptions. This is Bing’s big chance!

[Chuck Kongo]

Lmfao.

The bitter paranoid tears of the Wingnut Party are delicious!

[StRyDeRxX]

It's amazing how much credit these conservative nut jobs give Obama. They've done more to elevate him to uber status then the democratic party.

[the Artie Chair]

I use it almost exclusively these days but Google scares the shit out of me (and it has nothing to do with their lefty leanings).

[suckemnuckledus]

Don't Illinois Nazi's use Google? I hate Illinois Nazi's!

[Kamie]

Don't Illinois Nazi's use Google? I hate Illinois Nazi's!

And Nihilists.

[Beth143nacho]

Here's a thought: Obamas technological campaign was based on bush's 2004 model... I'd believe that google is working to provide intelligence to a political cycle, but find no difference between democrats and republicans. Two sides of the same coin that both work for the same people.

[shitcunt]

Take this faggotry to the politics forum

[MatthewT]

Google is starting to suck ass to the point where i search for shit on Bing now

[SiriusDawg]

Take this faggotry to the politics forum

I am bringing the light to others

[BrulesRules]

Google is starting to suck ass to the point where i search for shit on Bing now

Yep can't find decent porn on google anymore.

[mattyfishrip197]

I am bringing the light to others

and god bless you for doing it

[SiriusDawg]

It's funny to see this thread end up here while we have 50 other threads sitting on the Howard Stern forum

Then again, you can see why this thread went here while the others stayed....much like how the topics of some threads change when the political nature is not to their liking.

[Dawg]

It's funny to see this thread end up here while we have 50 other threads sitting on the Howard Stern forum

Then again, you can see why this thread went here while the others stayed....much like how the topics of some threads change when the political nature is not to their liking.

Are you accusing Staff or me personally of changing thread titles? This thread was moved for the sheer fact that you are nothing more than a troll. People have freedom to speak but you go overboard creating up to 10 threads per day. To me that is trolling. And for your information most of the staff are liberals. So your accusation doesnt hold water.

[mattyfishrip197]

Are you accusing Staff or me personally of changing thread titles? This thread was moved for the sheer fact that you are nothing more than a troll. People have freedom to speak but you go overboard creating up to 10 threads per day. To me that is trolling. And for your information most of the staff are liberals. So your accusation doesnt hold water.

is this shit really getting that deep.....i think we all need a laugh...

[SiriusDawg]

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[hollywoodrose]

Here's a thought: Obamas technological campaign was based on bush's 2004 model... I'd believe that google is working to provide intelligence to a political cycle, but find no difference between democrats and republicans. Two sides of the same coin that both work for the same people.

That's true - people fight each other over ridiculous, manufactured issues while having no clue that both parties serve the same masters. In the supposed home of the free world you'd think that there would be all kinds of choices, but they've managed to reduce it to a two party system, and force everyone into one side or the other. People need to get informed and stop fighting each other, and start going after the real enemy.


And about technology companies giving away your data - that's old news. It's got nothing to do with "the left". George W. began stealing the information from companies ranging from telephone to internet when he took office. He asked for the information first ("yeah sure! Here, take all the private information on all our clients! No charge!") and any company that refused he stole it from. Most of them didn't refuse of course, knowing that it wouldn't do much good other than to risk having the Bush government as an enemy. Then he made it "legal". They passed through legislation that obliged companies (i.e. google, yahoo, at&t) to hand over any information the government deemed necessary, all in the name of "national security".


So don't blame Obama - our criminal government has already made it legal. I wouldn't take for granted that you have any rights at all, because you don't. But that's the price of giving into fear - you also give up your rights to freedom. Sad this wasn't all stopped with 9/11. It's funny, the english even got in on it and they have their own little copyrighted "new pearl harbor" date, 7/7. But you can't have a free country when it seems like half the people don't even want it, or are too afraid to accept the responsibilities that come with making sure we get to keep it.

[the Artie Chair]

Well no, I am telling you that it has happened twice already...neither of which I cared that much to complain about. The last one was about the Twinkie shit that went down....I made a thread about the Unions not being at fault...mod or whoever changed it to make it seem the other way. Again, it was NOT the end of the world hence me not saying anything.

But now that this thread is moved to the faggy board while threads dealing with North Korea, Military Spending, Black people ruling the world, etc...none of which hold any sort of "talk" value with most calling Obama and/or liberals this or that name...is a bit beyond me.

Also...up to 10 threads a day? You do realize that you couldn't find a single day where I created more than 3-4, right? Add on top of that....I have only really created new threads but a few different days in the last few months...total. So, I am not sure where exactly that comes from. I started a few the last few days...before that, I can't remember when I made more than 1-2 a day....I would venture to say I have only created 10 topics the last few weeks if that.

But listen, I get it....you want to keep the "Obama is a whackjob" threads on the Howard Stern Forum and keep the "Republicans are a whackjob" threads in the faggy forum.

I am sure another thread will pop up with some sort of political topic....few will call liberals names, a few nigger/Obama jokes, etc....and that will stay up in the Stern forum for awhile.....while the outright threads mocking Republicans are continued to be monitored a bit more closely.

Don't want to troll here....except of course unless it is the Anti-Obama people now.

Hey Troll.... ​FUCK YOU

[the Artie Chair]

Well no, I am telling you that it has happened twice already...neither of which I cared that much to complain about. The last one was about the Twinkie shit that went down....I made a thread about the Unions not being at fault...mod or whoever changed it to make it seem the other way. Again, it was NOT the end of the world hence me not saying anything.

But now that this thread is moved to the faggy board while threads dealing with North Korea, Military Spending, Black people ruling the world, etc...none of which hold any sort of "talk" value with most calling Obama and/or liberals this or that name...is a bit beyond me.

Also...up to 10 threads a day? You do realize that you couldn't find a single day where I created more than 3-4, right? Add on top of that....I have only really created new threads but a few different days in the last few months...total. So, I am not sure where exactly that comes from. I started a few the last few days...before that, I can't remember when I made more than 1-2 a day....I would venture to say I have only created 10 topics the last few weeks if that.

But listen, I get it....you want to keep the "Obama is a whackjob" threads on the Howard Stern Forum and keep the "Republicans are a whackjob" threads in the faggy forum.

I am sure another thread will pop up with some sort of political topic....few will call liberals names, a few nigger/Obama jokes, etc....and that will stay up in the Stern forum for awhile.....while the outright threads mocking Republicans are continued to be monitored a bit more closely.

Don't want to troll here....except of course unless it is the Anti-Obama people now.

[SouthernListen]

Who are these threads directed to? 4 people who agree with them? Way to fight the fight, idiot.