The Trump campaign on Tuesday slammed Google’s decision to restrict how political operations reach users during the campaign, arguing it will stifle democracy, suppress voter turnout and unfairly hamstring President Trump and Republicans who’ve built a massive digital operation.
The Republican National Committee and the campaign arms for House and Senate Republicans joined Mr. Trump’s team in chastising the search giant for tweaks that make it harder to “micro-target” people based on things like political affiliation or public voting records.
Instead, campaigns will be limited to targeting people based on age, gender and their general location, or users who tend to read about certain subjects.
The Trump campaign said the move smacked of lopsided punishment.
“There can be no denying that President Trump and his campaign have built the greatest digital operation in all of politics, and that Google’s decision will disproportionately impact both the Trump operation and all of the Republican candidates and organizations that derive strength from it,” the campaign and GOP groups said. “What’s more, given the growing and documented cases of anti-conservative bias in Silicon Valley, we are highly skeptical that such a ban would be applied equally to conservative and liberal organizations.”
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Nothing can be done about it. Unless you go Obama style and make up a fake case and arrest the owners of tech giants and hold them responsible for anything illegal on the search engines. But that won’t happen. Good chance I’ll be moving to Thailand if trump loses. It will be much cheaper then US.
ReplyDeleteI doubt you'll have to move, but just to be shore, it's a much shorter trip to the voting booth than to Thailand
DeleteNot to worry, President Trump's "deplorables" will continue to follow him and vote for him. Vote Trump 2020
ReplyDeleteTrump should establish his own Google like operation and show those people that we don't need them to Win in 2020
ReplyDeleteViolation of the 1st amendment of freedom of speech. By them violating our constitutional rights they should receive no tax breaks or tax dollars for expansion or tax breaks for moving to certain areas or hire certain amount of workers.
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