Steve King asks Google CEO for names of employees to see if they're liberals

[Omaha Steve]

Source: The Hill

BY OWEN DAUGHERTY

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to disclose the names of more than 1,000 employees who work on the search engine’s algorithm to examine for “a built-in bias.”

“There is a very strong conviction on this side of the aisle that the algorithms are written with a bias against conservatives,” King said Tuesday during a House Judiciary hearing.

“What we don’t know are who are these thousand people and we don’t know what their social media looks like.”

Pichai explained to King that Google employees do not select certain news outlets over others, rather the search engine is responsive to users and what they are clicking on.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/420826-steve-king-asks-google-ceo-for-names-of-employees-to-check-social-media-to

[Initech]

1. Holy shit! This is some McCarthy level BS!

[cstanleytech]

2. Bingo.

[stopdiggin]

5. Right up his alley

And that isn't going to bother Steve (or a lot of his brethren) one bit. Shame is not part of their playbook. Just the way they roll.

[Initech]

21. Yup, they're fucking assholes and they want the whole world to know it.

[Dave Starsky]

3. I cannot fucking believe it.

So private citizens aren't allowed their private political opinions anymore?

This is madness. This is NOT the United States I grew up in. And I'm not that old.

[GWC58]

9. We're becoming, before our very eyes, the

United Stalinist States of Amerika! Scary shit! I so wish that racist fucker had gone down, been defeated, in Iowa. 😱😳 That “thing” is a stomach turning piece of DOGSHIT. 🖕🏻 you, King!

[area51]

4. Trying to harass a private business, eh, King, you Nazi?

Why am I not surprised that you're in favor of govt. interference when it suits you?

[tblue37]

8. And private individuals. nt

[barbtries]

6. how does someone as stupid as him get to congress?

jeez.

the truth has a liberal bias. giving a shit about the world and the living things in the world leads to liberalism. stupid ass demagogue caveman idiot.

[GWC58]

11. Or his buddy, the "oh so stupid as a box of rocks"

Louis “Goober” Gohmert. That man is a special kind of stupid! I’ll make sure, if ever in Iowa or Texas, to steer clear of those two districts. ☠️😡😳

[barbtries]

16. yes, gohmert

who votes for idiots? never mind, rhetorical question.

[tblue37]

7. This is how purges get set up. nt

[Initech]

22. Yup - Philippines, Turkey, Hungary, Poland...

I'm sure Italy and Brazil will be joining them.

[left-of-center2012]

10. Rep King is a white supremist

His support for the far right came out this past election.
It's in his nature to "hunt' liberals.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

37. What exactly is it that King does for Iowa that it keeps re-electing this piece of human garbage ?

[Progressive Jones]

38. His district is Deplorable Central. The voters are mostly just like him. nt

[EarthFirst]

12. Dangerous, dangerous shit here my friends... nt

[procon]

13. Poor old fella, he's a dinosaur from back in the day when "tubes"

when conservatives thought the internet was high tech stuff beyond their comprehension. Search engines, they now think, must require human interventions instead of coding. Although I'm cheered to know that we liberals are such brilliant, creative geniuses that we can win a battle with a room full of servers.

[louis-t]

14. So he can install his own bias.

Stop liberals from voting, hunt them down and 'expose' them, only conservatives allowed to have any bias. Jeez, what a pig.

[Racerdog1]

15. Moron,through and through

Little piece of shit would have hard time finding his way out of a closet. Now he wants to take on the CEO of Google? Just a little out of this fuckers league.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Does the GOP now want to decide who public companies can hire based on their

political leanings? Guess they're going all out fascist.

[PeeJ52]

18. I'm starting to think

the only solution is a caravan to Canada before they start building a wall. This is not my country.

[paleotn]

19. Got a subpoena? No?

Then go fuck yourself.

[GusBob]

20. Dafuq? Pichal explains what?

Tell that MOTHERFUCKER TO KISS YOUR ASS!

[woundedkarma]

23. simple answer to this

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Google is not run, bought for, paid by the government. They are a business. And if you want to start getting into a big corp's business, we'll be happy to repay the favor as soon as we have a dem senate and whitehouse. And we'll tell all the corps it was all because of you opening the floodgates.

google knows this. And while the gov't can put pressure on them .. in the end they can just dump the search engine. Alphabet (or whatever) has plenty of other money makers.

[klook]

24. Yet when I search for "piece of shit,"

“Steve King (N-Iowa)” isn’t the first result!


George Soros isn’t getting his money’s worth!

[dae]

25. I hope for a very strong conviction rate against the GOtrumpP Crime Family.

[dameatball]

26. This is total bullshit harrassment, but couldn't someone ask the same things about Fox News?

[LisaM]

27. There's a very strong conviction on our side of the aisle that election laws are writtne with a bias

against the American people. So Steve King can shove it.

[Solly Mack]

28. K&R

[liberal N proud]

29. Is it Fascism yet?

[roamer65]

30. Fuck King.

POS racist scumbag.

[lunasun]

31. Stupid at burn level

[muntrv]

32. Private entity, Stevie.

[BlueIdaho]

33. It's not the algorithms, it's the assholes

In the Republican Party. Go look in a mirror Steve.

[C_U_L8R]

34. None of your business.

Go google yourself, King

[muntrv]

35. He had to be told that Google doesn't make the I Phone.

[The Liberal Lion]

36. is king really this much of an idiot or was this just for show?

[GWC58]

39. Look at the man in the top hat, and white mustache.

The look on his face when “Box-O-Rocks” King asked that, most stupid, question is priceless. I almost busted my guts laughing! 😂😅

[MineralMan]

40. "Are they now, or have they ever been Democrats?"

What a moron Steve King is! He has no clue how Google works, but he's sure it's overrun with "librals."

[Beartracks]

41. It's well-known that facts have a liberal bias. So King wants the Internet to be a "safe space"?

F*in' snowflake.

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