The same half-wits who think they are being "shadow banned" don't seem to understand that Google filters and sorts your search results based on your search and viewing history in order to give you what it thinks you want most. 2/
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So, if you spend all of your time searching for news articles that say shitty things about you, then THAT's what Google is going to show you. Trump is seeing what he wants to see. 3/
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Trump spends his days obsessively Googling himself in an orgy of narcissistic masturbation. So Google shows him what he wants to see, shitty articles about himself. 4/
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Trump's complaint is easily disproved: If you pull up Google News in an Incognito window, you get totally different results. You get results ordered by a complex algorithm that attempts to order the list chiefly by popularity across all readerships. And if... 5/
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...that list is primarily shitty stories about Trump, well, that's because the majority of people think Trump is a shitty president. That's on HIM, not Google. 6/
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If you look at the results under different profiles, such as mine in the screen cap in the first Tweet, you see different ordering. In my case, because I read across dozens of news outlets every day, some liberal, some conservative, many foreign, you get... 7/
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... more mixed results. It the early days of the internet, search engines returned unsorted, unfiltered results. You didn't like it. You couldn't manage it. You WANT Google to sort your results into an order that best suits you. 8/
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Of course there is a bias to your search results, YOUR bias, created by YOUR search history and YOUR habits and YOUR desires. Of course there is. That's how the technology works. This isn't any secret. 9/
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Just as there's a bias to social media. YOUR bias, created by who YOU follow, who YOU friend, what YOU want to see. No shit, of course there's a bias. YOU create it. YOU. And YOU control it. If you don't know this, that's YOUR fault. 10/
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None of this is a secret. None of this is some vast conspiracy theory. IT'S HOW THE TECHNOLOGY WORKS. And it works that way because that's what WE want. 11/
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These people complaining about "bias" and "shadow banning" are only demonstrating their own ignorance. They're like folks who drive a car on remote highways far from help but don't know how to change a flat or check the damned oil. 12/
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But it's that last bit, Trump's threat, "This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!" that's the real danger here. He would attack the First Amendment, demand control over the press, over information, based on UTTER IGNORANCE OF HOW THESE SYSTEMS ACTUALLY WORK. 13/
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Remember that Duck Boat accident here a few weeks back? The boat foundered in a storm, passengers died because they couldn't get out. BECAUSE THE BOAT WAS DESIGNED BY A GUY WHO WASN'T AN ENGINEER OR EVEN QUALIFIED TO DESIGN DUCK BOATS. 14/
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That's what happens when those who don't understand science, technology, engineering, promote themselves as experts in science, technology, and engineering. People die. In this case freedom, liberty, the Republic, dies. 15/
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Conservatives like Trump reject actual education, knowledge, and fact for conspiracy, hysteria, "gut feelings," and are thus utterly unqualified to be making decisions or laws regarding technologies bases on science, engineering, knowledge, education, and fact. /16
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This situation is incredibly dangerous and it is indicative of a much deeper problem. Trump doesn't understand the basics of Google search results, how in the hell can he understand international relations? Economics? Military policy? the LAW? and so on. /17
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Trump is a fool. A very dangerous fool. And the problem with fools is that they tend to get other people killed. 18/18
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