{"id":8794,"date":"2015-04-08T00:21:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2015-04-08T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T20:28:09","slug":"google-has-become-minitru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/04\/08\/google-has-become-minitru\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has become MiniTru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SOC-JUS.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SOC JUS\" width=\"512\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SOC-JUS.png 512w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SOC-JUS-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Don&#8217;t think that the &#8220;Ministry of Truth&#8221; from George Orwell&#8217;s novel <em>1984<\/em> could ever exist?\u00a0 Look no further than Google to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/416289\/memories-pizza-just-memory-google-least-ian-tuttle\" target=\"_blank\">prove<\/a> that notion wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Since stating this morning that they would not be willing to cater a same-sex wedding, the owners of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Ind., are experiencing the famous &#8216;tolerance&#8217; of the American Left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The description for -Gay Memories Pizza- \u2014 which has as its avatar &#8216;Gay Jesus&#8217; \u2014 links to the website [REDACTED], a dating website for gay men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;None of the nine Memories Pizza-associated images Google Maps provides are related to Memories Pizza. Instead, one finds &#8216;Boycott Indiana&#8217;\u200b images and cartoons mocking Christians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/416289\/memories-pizza-just-memory-google-least-ian-tuttle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8795\" title=\"Memories Pizza, IN\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Memories-Pizza-IN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Memories-Pizza-IN.png 1030w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Memories-Pizza-IN-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Memories-Pizza-IN-1024x573.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;But Google said that that was done by hackers,&#8221; some might cry.  Even if true, Google wasn&#8217;t exactly gushing with apology, and perhaps, there was silent smiles of approval.  After all, were any such &#8220;hackers&#8221;\u00a0<em>also<\/em> Google employees engaging in a <em>Stand Alone Complex<\/em>?  But that company&#8217;s name is a synonym for &#8220;web search&#8221; and millions upon millions blindly follow their search results.\u00a0 But what really pushes this into Orwellian territory is that they are musing a plan to rank their search results according to their <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/digital-marketing-google-x2014-search-engine-for-truth-20150321\" target=\"_blank\">opinion<\/a> of the &#8220;truth,&#8221; wherein such bias, though more subtle, would become formal policy.\u00a0 They would:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;[rank] websites based on the trustworthiness and factual accuracy of web sources. This new system would rely on Google\u2019s own Knowledge Vault and a number of other metrics to gauge the accuracy of the information on a page.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Considering the clear bias they have demonstrated, including their selective celebrations at their homepage, in addition to their dominance and monopolistic goals, they are clearly aiming to be the new &#8220;MiniTru&#8221; in the Progressive world of corporatism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Seems that their real motto is &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> be evil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>P.S.<\/strong> &#8211; The desecration of the search results for Memorial Pizza <em>not<\/em> being caused by the formal policy of Google was clarified in the article.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Google has become MiniTru\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Don't think that the \"Ministry of Truth\" from George Orwell's novel 1984 could ever exist?  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