The freshman lawmaker’s legislation introduced Wednesday would require companies to prove to the Federal Trade Commission that their algorithms and other ways of filtering content are not biased against a particular party or candidate. If companies don’t do that, they would face losing protections in current law that shield them from being sued over user posts on their sites.
Google has a near monopoly with 75% of searches. Their bias amounts to an unreported in-kind campaign contribution worth billions of dollars. Yet they are exempt from liable laws based on providing free access to all points of view.
Personally I think Senator Hawley’s proposal makes lot of sense.
Maybe if Americans or people in this thread don’t believe it, they should simply do a Google search, on something political, and see what the top searches come up as?
Not just for one subject but for several. Then see, if the top searches are a ratio of Democrat based sites and views compared to Republicans ones. The proof is in the pudding, and as a Conservative I implore people to seek the truth out for themselves!!!
Google could continue with their bias under Senator Hawley’s proposal. It is just that they could be sued for liable if their search is biased to direct towards libelous content.
I think they could already face prosecution for violating campaign finance laws. Companies spend millions to get near the to of search results. Google provides that service to liberal candidates for free, while at the same time burying content that would be unfavorable their campaigns.
