Louie Gohmert unable to understand Google ads

[Judi Lynn]

Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 04:18 PM CDT
Louie Gohmert unable to understand Google ads

The Texas Congressman was left a bit confused during a hearing on EPCA VIDEO
By Jillian Rayfield

In a House hearing on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, revealed that he has apparently been misinformed about how Gmail figures out which ads to display in your account, and no amount of explanation from the Google team could persuade him otherwise.

As Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing explains: ”For the record, here’s how it works: Google parses the email for keywords, checks to see if anyone has bid to have text-ads displayed on emails with those words, and displays ads that match. Here’s how Gohmert thinks they work: A computer at Google reads your email, sends your identity to an advertiser, and asks it if it wants to display ads on your email.”

Gohmert questioned the Google lawyer present at the hearing, and it did not go very well. Here’s a sample from the exchange:

Gohmert: Okay, so what would prevent the federal government from making a deal with Google, so they could also “Scroogle” people, and say “I want to know everyone who has ever used the term ‘Benghazi’” or “I want everyone who’s ever used… a certain term.” Would you discriminate against the government, or would you allow the government to know about all emails that included those words?

Lawyer: Uh… sir, I think those are apples and oranges. I think the disclosure of the identity…

Cont'd

More:
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/21/louie_gohmert_unable_to_understand_google_ads/

[marmar]

1. Louie Gohmert is unable to understand which orifice does what in the bathroom.....

...... A dumber, more useless sack of flesh you won't find.

[Botany]

2. Gohmert has a law degree and he was a judge too

[pkdu]

3. Psstttt!, Louie , look up NSA in your directory , you'll find you already have that. Nt

[tanyev]

4. Do not get him started on the little elf that lives inside the computer.

"Why are they all named Intel?"

[xfundy]

5. He's overthinking it.

It's actually DEMONS.

[neverforget]

6. He's one of the dimmest of dim bulbs from Texas.

The lights are on but nobody is home.

[MiniMe]

7. Reminds me of Ted Stevens and his internet tubes a bit

Totally clueless.