[skarra]

Political post disguised as something about technology. Fake post LOL

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Alt-right conspiracy nonsense.

If you have to delve into websites like outkick to find your information, then maybe your agenda needs tweaking.

I wonder what the view of The Villages looks like when seen from under a rock?

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by Pugchief

The amount of control these tech companies have over framing your viewpoint is criminal.

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Caveat Emptor. You dislike Google, or X, use another service, there are several fro which to choose.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by GizmoWhiskers

I wonder what the view of The Villages looks like when seen from under a rock?

I have often wondered what color the sky was in the tinfoil hat world.

[DonH57]

Originally Posted by kansasr

Tin foil for protecting one's head can be found in aisle 4 at Publix

Keep alert for the BOGO's on them!

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Pugchief

The amount of control these tech companies have over framing your viewpoint is criminal.

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Here is MY what-about-ism..........we ALL know that the GREATEST framer of our viewpoint (propagandist) is none other than Foxy Loxie.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by jimbomaybe

It has been demonstrated through the IA programs, they use a large part of just what is present on the web to synthesize, condense what is there, IA has no critical thinking, garbage in garbage out, If there were a great abundance of the web articles were about how healthy it is to stand on your head in a corner for 15 minutes a day thinking about grasshoppers that would have the herd thinking, believing and expounding how much it has helped them

I personally, LOVE to relax my mind by thinking about grasshoppers - Ah, grasshoppers flying in a golden field of milo in Nebraska, as I concentrate my focus on my dogs working to kick up those "waskelly" pheasants.
..........PS.....Don't you mean A.I. standing for artificial intelligence? Not IA standing for........????? idiots in an audience ???????

[Bay Kid]

Getting tired of the same old ads. Google Victoria's Secrets and for the next several days google will show ladies lingerie.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by kansasr

Tin foil for protecting one's head can be found in aisle 4 at Publix

BEAUTIFULLY DONE. That gave me the heartiest LAUGH I have ever had on TOTV - and there has been a LOT of material to laugh at before!

[JRcorvette]

Originally Posted by Pugchief

The amount of control these tech companies have over framing your viewpoint is criminal.

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Google is the worst offender but other search engines like Yahoo do the same. You could switch to a different browser such as Brave or Mozilla and also use Duck Duck Go.

I believe that Google needs to be broken up like they did to AT&T years ago.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Pugchief

The amount of control these tech companies have over framing your viewpoint is criminal.

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I hear that Elon Musk has lost control over Twitter AKA- - - X (now there IS an imaginative name). Bet he would like to sell it.

[Bridget Staunton]

CNN total garbage, waste of my time

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Pugchief

The amount of control these tech companies have over framing your viewpoint is criminal.

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Frustrating? Yes. But criminal? Hardly. There really hasn't been a time in our history when information presented to Joe Public, at least to a certain extent, HASN'T been sifted or cherry-picked by media to present a certain face. Search "yellow journalism" for just one example of such activity going back to the late 19th century. But that is just one example among many others, and the yellow journalists of that time faced plenty of opposition from news sources printing opposing views.

The issue here however is not so much that a Google search is apt to yield results heavily skewed in a certain direction (that has been known for quite some time) but that a monopoly on disseminated information means that it has become progressively harder and harder to find information on the internet that might contradict the stuff most readily available in a Google search. This seems to be the case most often when it relates to "social" issues. Try searching Google for any information that contradicts the accepted line du jour on just about any social issue and this will become obvious. The problem is that, when you're the only game in town, you can pretty successfully slam the door on any info. that you might not want Joe Public to see.

Google of course is not the "only game in town" when it comes to the availability of information on the internet. But it is far and away the largest. In 2018 Google handled no less than 90.8% of all internet searches (Jeff Desjardins, "This Chart Reveals Google’s True Dominance Over the Web", visualcapitalist dot com, April 20, 2018) and I doubt that that dominance has shrunk in the past five years. Additionally, Google owns and controls the content of Youtube, "the second biggest social media in the world, with over 2.7 billion active users" (demandsage dot com, February 2023 statistics). Finally, Google and FaceBook, the LARGEST social media platform on theplanet, which though ostensibly independent of one another, have formed a "partnership": ("Facebook and Google announced that they will be partnering to bring Facebook's retargeting platform, Facebook Exchange, to Google's Doubleclick." (bigfootprintdigital dot com, Oct. 25, 2022). All this means that Google, through its search engine and control over YouTube alone, controls what is available to nearly 3 BILLION people worldwide and if one adds in its influence over FaceBook, their dominance is huge--AND scary--AND undeniable.

I have begun collecting print books relating to issues, primarily social, that offer more complete pictures of those issues than what is available online. These will go to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren when that time comes. But even this, due to the surging popularity of e-books, is becoming harder and harder to accomplish. And how long will it take for even these books to be deemed "undesirable" and worthy of censure/destruction?

I don't know. Time will tell, I guess, and there seems to be less and less of that all the time.

[kansasr]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

BEAUTIFULLY DONE. That gave me the heartiest LAUGH I have ever had on TOTV - and there has been a LOT of material to laugh at before!

Thank you. Glad some people on here appreciate humor and don't take everything like the world is ending.

[montysl]

People really only need to use their eyes, ears and brains to observe the manipulation. Watch any Congressional hearing and/or session on any source. Now granted, one must be willing to do this WITHOUT your own agenda, but, if you do, THEN pose a question to Google using ANY phrasing, ANY word combination of your choice regarding what you have just seen with your own two eyes and heard with your own two ears and determine for yourself the bias level that exists. Then do the same on several other search engines and check the results! It’s a simple experiment but the differences will likely amaze you! I understand that those that desperately want a certain result will use whatever means necessary to justify the obvious bias but that can’t be helped. TRUTH will out.