Google trends not listing Rand Paul for debate

[TheNewYorker]

Fuck Google

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[rg17]

Google people are asshoes!

 

[01000110]

Assholes

 

[ssunlimited]

Maybe it's just the limit for how many searches can be seen, not downright censoring?

 

[TheNewYorker]

To be fair they aren't listing kasich either, but it's not like he has any search interest at all.

You're telling me 0 people are searching for Rand Paul during this debate?

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

 

[CPUd]

@VincentHarris

 

[timosman]

Google people are asshoes!

Google is in the bag for DNC.

 

[derek4ever]

Google is in the bag for DNC.

Seems to be Microsoft is too, so not surprising, unfortunately.

 

[ds21089]

Maybe they arent showing him because he's winning.

https://twitter.com/BW_React

 

[CPUd]

 

[rich34]

Obviously he's winning that's the only honest conclusion... Fuckers....

 

[georgiaboy]

this must not stand.

Tech recon team, activate!

 

[r3volution 3.0]

That fits my own perceptions. Rand totally dominated when he got to talk (which was mostly toward the beginning).

 

[nasaal]

So.... What's being implied? That Google is trying to stop him now? That Google's feels threatened by Rand Paul?

 

[TheNewYorker]

So.... What's being implied? That Google is trying to stop him now? That Google's feels threatened by Rand Paul?

No, but this was a fox-google debate, and we already know Fox can't be trusted, the evidence is obvious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcbaMCfzW0

 

[CPUd]

That fits my own perceptions. Rand totally dominated when he got to talk (which was mostly toward the beginning).

That big spike for Cruz in the middle was from people looking up his old videos to find stuff like:

 

[CPUd]

Meanwhile, on the twitter:

 

[Mr Stealth]

The danger with Google's involvement is that, through the capture and realtime analysis of data, they have power to manipulate perception that makes the mainstream media look like ants. With enough data and computing power, a theorhetical entity could analyze the things people search for online and mold their perception by withholding certain information related to their search, or making cerrain info appear first. People think they are educating themselves when searching for facts online. There appears to be so much information that surely the truth must rise to the surface, but because the curation of information is ultimately controlled by a single entity, we are in actuality only receiving information which that entity allows.

Imagine a debate where every person's reaction to a candidate's responses are captured in real time and follow-up questions are instantly calculated according to those reactions. Public perception could be controlled or at least hedged with such a distopian system of thought herding, and this is the kind of power that Google dreams of.

Stop giving your thoughts to these companies to sell. You are their product.

 

[DJH73]

The danger with Google's involvement is that, through the capture and realtime analysis of data, they have power to manipulate perception that makes the mainstream media look like ants. With enough data and computing power, a theorhetical entity could analyze the things people search for online and mold their perception by withholding certain information related to their search, or making cerrain info appear first. People think they are educating themselves when searching for facts online. There appears to be so much information that surely the truth must rise to the surface, but because the curation of information is ultimately controlled by a single entity, we are in actuality only receiving information which that entity allows.

Imagine a debate where every person's reaction to a candidate's responses are captured in real time and follow-up questions are instantly calculated according to those reactions. Public perception could be controlled or at least hedged with such a distopian system of thought herding, and this is the kind of power that Google dreams of.

Stop giving your thoughts to these companies to sell. You are their product.

Yep. Truth. This should scare most people, but your average person doesnt even realize the extent of where this technology has went. All information, past and real time is available to a few chosen entities, and they can pull the stats on someone as an individual, or as a group, and they have algorithms that can even predict the future with good accuracy. The media completes the feedback loop. The talking heads get told what to say, so actually they are a part of a computer program. This is why you see the program trying to crash when it comes to Rand, he is giving them a hell of a time keeping him down.

 

[Mr Stealth]

Yep. Truth. This should scare most people, but your average person doesnt even realize the extent of where this technology has went. All information, past and real time is available to a few chosen entities, and they can pull the stats on someone as an individual, or as a group, and they have algorithms that can even predict the future with good accuracy. The media completes the feedback loop. The talking heads get told what to say, so actually they are a part of a computer program. This is why you see the program trying to crash when it comes to Rand, he is giving them a hell of a time keeping him down.

Surely we've all noticed the phrasing about Rand/Ron from the talking heads. "It looks like he might win, and maybe people want him to win, and perhaps he has some good points, but he CAN'T win." I've yet to hear an explanation or sound theories from these same heads as to why the mysterious laws of nature just can't let Rand win, it's just some sort of fact, like 0 cannot equal 1.