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Mary Chico's avatar

Maybe the solution would be to sue the content producer and require them to remove the content AND to publish their apology AND the TRUTH OF THE MATTER in language approved by Sen. Paul.

Bob Bauer's avatar

You should sue google for allowing false videos by using well known people to say what they choose. Like Dr Oz. And a few others. Using AI to sell products.

Dennis Valley's avatar

When Google thinks it's okay to say "experts" and not say who exactly is a violation of everything I learned in college. I asked it's AI and it says the tech companies just agreed to violate that journalistic integrity thing. They are not telling you the truth, its just their truth. It's a great product but they seem to not like us. Please sue them for intentionally misleading and misinformed our citizens. Even Democrats deserve the truth.

TriTorch's avatar

Google is primary player in the following narrative control and should be broken up into a thousand pieces as a result:

Ten Ways Billionaires Who Hate You Are Manipulating You Right Now by @thewisewolf

1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.

2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.

3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.

4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.

5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.

6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.

7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.

8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.

9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.

10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable

Alex Matthews's avatar

Sen. Paul … as usual you are 100% correct on *this issue. I think it runs in the family, i.e. Ron.

*countless others, too.

Respectfully, alex.

Prometheus Sputnik's avatar

They sure should be held personally accountable for censoring -- what is truth is and can be hard to determine - but the trend about what side google chose to allow was clear and thousands of people got killed because of it. It was not the tin foil hats who spread mis information!!

Cindy Herbel's avatar

I can usually tell when someone is a danger to the establishment. The number and amplification of personal smears increases. The louder the voices yell, the less truth they tell. People used to know this. Social media has allowed payment for opinions which seems like bribery and it should come with a legal disclosure. TV ads shows an "actor portrayal" so maybe social media accounts should also require a warning that this information was paid for by a third party. I do not support censorship of speech. But I would like to know if someone was paid to have an opinion.

Marie Gerones's avatar

Repeal/sunset Section 230 is the solution.

Jm1129's avatar

I agree with Rand Paul but this has been a problem for a long time and he has changed his mind when it finally affects him personally. Not happy about that. Google and it's cohorts encourage the news they want and discourage news they don't want Section 230 is a shield they should not have

I. E.'s avatar

Rand I have sent money to your campaign in the past and to your father. I support you and your father. Suing Google and Facebook is the correct thing to do. ALSO you need friends. You should stop moving against Trump, he is a good man as you are. You must work with him, stop this nonsense of refusing to support ideas he has. We, WE do not have many chances to really change the very bad direction the country is going in, TRUMP IS THAT CHANCE. we and you must take it. Are all his ideas prefect? Are all your ideas perfect? Let us get real. This is our chance, SUPPORT TRUMP. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Okay. Ivan

Randie Walton's avatar

Legacy media all does this! Their hands are so deep in the pockets of the Democrats that they all parrot the same lies, every day all day. They don’t even report news that is important because they don’t want us to know.

Toddy's avatar

Sue them.

And ALSO put out YouTube videos and on any other platform you can about their blatant and crazy lies.

Michaela Steele's avatar

Don’t forget to get Zuckerberg whilst you’re at it…

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

I have written my Congressman that Google, Facebook and Microsoft all aide and abet the internet scam artists. Why? They do not monitor and stop fraudulent websites upfront that are used to trick the innocent user. Means they have to hire more people! Case in point. google sells listing that supersede the legitimate website that the user is trying to access. Some are mirror images which in it self is copyright infringement. Google doesn't discriminate and stop the fraudsters. 17 Billion dollar a year are swindled by these scam artists in USA. . Google allows an identical Microsoft website to supersede the legitimate one. Fraudster owned. Server in New Zealand and fraudster in India.

It takes a personal attack to get a Congressman to act. We need 59 more to take action and stop it! I guess they are too busy managing their stock portfolios.

Ron Tkacz's avatar

-“Rand Paul has long defended the liability of major social media companies from being sued for the content they host via the federal protection of Section 230.

He’s changed his mind.”

Question is whether Rand Paul should now be prosecuted for voting in support of Section 230 which enabled and encouraged the Goggle and YouTube propaganda promotion.

Forest monster's avatar

People can say whatever they want that's not the problem. The problem is the Google pushes and chooses what they want us to see. I miss being able to look up a bunch of recipes and having more than just a handful to choose from. Even when I try and get different recipes that I know are out there it still sends me back to their chosen approved ones. That's where the problem comes in. People can say whatever they want but when these huge companies make sure the only thing we hear is what they want that's what's got to stop. It all goes back to whose programming the algorithm.