{"id":254,"date":"2018-09-12T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americaschallenges.wordpress.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2018-09-12T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:29:00","slug":"googles-reaction-to-president-trump-wining-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Google&rsquo;s reaction to President Trump wining the election!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How sad\u2026..Bye Bye Google\u2026\u2026. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Not that there should be any debate over Silicon Valley\u2019s hatred of President Trump and the 63 million Americans who voted for him but a bombshell video of Google execs engaging in what by any definition is a therapy session after Hillary Clinton\u2019s crushing loss is another damning indictment of those who seek to control free speech. <\/p>\n<p><ins><ins><ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins> <\/p>\n<p>The information colossus has been increasingly unable to conceal a blatant \u2013 and some would say fascistic \u2013 attitude towards conservatives who are being censored with an alarming frequency by Facebook, Twitter and especially Google as they are clearly seeking to meddle in the upcoming elections on behalf of Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>Give a big tip of the hat to Breitbart News for the bombshell release of leaked video footage of Google\u2019s first \u201call hands\u201d meeting after the state of California which is home to its employees got a lesson one exactly why the framers included the Electoral College in the U.S Constitution. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1039980012940742656\"> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/1039979682664525829\/pu\/img\/KCENnTg885gCiU25?format=jpg&amp;name=small\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1039980012940742656\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1039980012940742656\"> <\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A leaked video following Trump&#8217;s election win shows Google co-founder Sergey Brin stating &#8220;most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad&#8221; with Trump&#8217;s victory.<br \/>He says he is &#8220;deeply offended]&#8221; over Trump&#8217;s win, saying Trump &#8220;conflicts with many of [Google\u2019s] values.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1040006618325217280\"> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/1040005887165755392\/pu\/img\/1op-jgBjaA4t0ak1?format=jpg&amp;name=small\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1040006618325217280\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1028043105516236800\/d0uzx5_-_normal.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\"> <\/p>\n<p>Ryan Saavedra <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Flag of United States\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/abs.twimg.com\/emoji\/v2\/72x72\/1f1fa-1f1f8.png\"> <\/p>\n<p><b>\u2714<\/b>@RealSaavedra <\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1040006618325217280\"> <\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Google CFO Ruth Porat appears to break down in tears describing the 2016 election results, says Trump&#8217;s win &#8220;was really painful&#8221; and the election went &#8220;the wrong way.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via Breitbart, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/09\/12\/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election\/\">\u201cLEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership\u2019s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election\u201d<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A video recorded by Google shortly after the 2016 presidential election reveals an atmosphere of panic and dismay amongst the tech giant\u2019s leadership, coupled with a determination to thwart both the Trump agenda and the broader populist movement emerging around the globe. <\/p>\n<p>The video is a full recording of Google\u2019s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 election (these weekly meetings are known inside the company as \u201cTGIF\u201d or \u201cThank God It\u2019s Friday\u201d meetings). Sent to Breitbart News by an anonymous source, it features co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth Porat, and CEO Sundar Pichai. It can be watched in full above. It can and should be watched in full above in order to get the full context of the meeting and the statements made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ENTIRE video can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/09\/12\/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election\/\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1040015575139987456\"> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/1040014422712827905\/pu\/img\/vaacZHg5xpuBO6cO?format=jpg&amp;name=small\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1040015575139987456\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/949270171755077632\/dw3M-58z_normal.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\"> <\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News <\/p>\n<p><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Some highlights from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/09\/12\/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election\/\">Breitbart<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>CEO Sundar Pichai states that the company will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat what an employee described as \u201cmisinformation\u201d shared by \u201clow-information voters.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Key moments from the video can be found at the following timestamps: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(00:00:00 \u2013 00:01:12) Google co-founder Sergey Brin states that the weekly meeting is \u201cprobably not the most joyous we\u2019ve had\u201d and that \u201cmost people here are pretty upset and pretty sad.\u201d\n<li>(00:00:24) Brin contrasts the disappointment of Trump\u2019s election with his excitement at the legalization of cannabis in California, triggering laughs and applause from the audience of Google employees.\n<li>(00:01:12) Returning to seriousness, Brin says he is \u201cdeeply offended]\u201d by the election of Trump, and that the election \u201cconflicts with many of [Google\u2019s] values.\u201d\n<li>(00:09:10) Trying to explain the motivations of Trump supporters, Senior VP for Global Affairs, Kent Walker concludes: \u201cfear, not just in the United States, but around the world is fueling concerns, xenophobia, hatred, and a desire for answers that may or may not be there.\u201d\n<li>(00:09:35) Walker goes on to describe the Trump phenomenon as a sign of \u201ctribalism that\u2019s self-destructive [in] the long-term.\u201d\n<li>(00:09:55) Striking an optimistic tone, Walker assures Google employees that despite the election, \u201chistory is on our side\u201d and that the \u201cmoral arc of history bends towards progress.\u201d\n<li>(00:10:45) Walker approvingly quotes former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi\u2019s comparison between \u201cthe world of the wall\u201d with its \u201cisolation and defensiveness\u201d and the \u201cworld of the square, the piazza, the marketplace, where people come together into a community and enrich each other\u2019s lives.\u201d\n<li>(00:13:10) CFO Ruth Porat appears to break down in tears when discussing the election result.\n<li>(00:15:20) Porat promises that Google will \u201cuse the great strength and resources and reach we have to continue to advance really important values.\u201d\n<li>(00:16:50) Stating \u201cwe all need a hug,\u201d she then instructs the audience of Google employees to hug the person closest to them.\n<li>(00:20:24) Eileen Noughton, VP of People Operations, promises that Google\u2019s policy team in DC is \u201call over\u201d the immigration issue and that the company will \u201ckeep a close watch on it.\u201d\n<li>(00:21:26) Noughton jokes about Google employees asking, \u2018Can I move to Canada?\u2019 after the election. She goes on to seriously discuss the options available to Google employees who wish to leave the country.\n<li>(00:23:12) Noughton does acknowledge \u201cdiversity of opinion and political persuasion\u201d and notes that she has heard from conservative Google employees who say they \u201chaven\u2019t felt entirely comfortable revealing who [they] are.\u201d and urged \u201ctolerance.\u201d (Several months later, the company would fire James Damore allegedly for disagreeing with progressive narratives.)\n<li>(00:27:00) Responding to a question about \u201cfilter bubbles,\u201d Sundar Pichai promises to work towards \u201ccorrecting\u201d Google\u2019s role in them\n<li>(00:27:30) Sergey Brin praises an audience member\u2019s suggestion of increasing matched Google employee donations to progressive groups.\n<li>(00:34:40) Brin compares Trump voters to \u201cextremists,\u201d arguing for a correlation between the economic background of Trump supporters and the kinds of voters who back extremist movements. Brin says that \u201cvoting is not a rational act\u201d and that not all of Trump\u2019s support can be attributed to \u201cincome disparity.\u201d He suggests that Trump voters might have been motivated by boredom rather than legitimate concerns.\n<li>(00:49:10) An employee asks if Google is willing to \u201cinvest in grassroots, hyper-local efforts to bring tools and services and understanding of Google products and knowledge\u201d so that people can \u201cmake informed decisions that are best for themselves.\u201d Pichai\u2019s response: Google will ensure its \u201ceducational products\u201d reach \u201csegments of the population [they] are not [currently] fully reaching.\u201d\n<li>(00:54:33) An employee asks what Google is going to do about \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cfake news\u201d shared by \u201clow-information voters.\u201d Pichai responds by stating that \u201cinvestments in machine learning and AI\u201d are a \u201cbig opportunity\u201d to fix the problem.\n<li>(00:56:12) Responding to an audience member, Walker says Google must ensure the rise of populism doesn\u2019t turn into \u201ca world war or something catastrophic \u2026 and instead is a blip, a hiccup.\u201d\n<li>(00:58:22) Brin compares Trump voters to supporters of fascism and communism, linking the former movement to \u201cboredom,\u201d which Brin previously linked to Trump voters. \u201cIt sort of sneaks up sometimes, really bad things\u201d says Brin.\n<li>(01:01:15) A Google employee states: \u201cspeaking to white men, there\u2019s an opportunity for you right now to understand your privilege\u201d and urges employees to \u201cgo through the bias-busting training, read about privilege, read about the real history of oppression in our country.\u201d He urges employees to \u201cdiscuss the issues you are passionate about during Thanksgiving dinner and don\u2019t back down and laugh it off when you hear the voice of oppression speak through metaphors.\u201d Every executive on stage \u2013 the CEO, CFO, two VPs and the two Co-founders \u2013 applaud the employee.\n<li>(01:01:57) An audience member asks if the executives see \u201canything positive from this election result.\u201d The audience of Google employees, and the executives on stage, burst into laughter. \u201cBoy, that\u2019s a really tough one right now\u201d says Brin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrrrGraphics\/status\/1039652804120346624\/photo\/1\">View image on Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrrrGraphics\/status\/1039652804120346624\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dm2WOm-U8AEbqfC?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" width=\"700\" height=\"535\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrrrGraphics\/status\/1039652804120346624\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrrrGraphics\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1032842630730735616\/yqQ1nb34_normal.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrrrGraphics\"> <\/p>\n<p>GrrrGraphics Cartoons <\/p>\n<p><b>\u2714<\/b>@GrrrGraphics <\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrrrGraphics\/status\/1039652804120346624\"> <\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoogleGate?src=hash\">#GoogleGate<\/a> Silent Donation\u2019: Corporate Emails Reveal Google Executives\u2019 Efforts to Turn Out Latino Voters Who They Thought Would Vote for Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9erlBTCaHg\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/09\/10\/silent-donation-corporate-emails-reveal-google-executives-efforts-to-swing-election-to-hillary-clinton-with-latino-outreach-campaign\/ \u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s public relations team was quick to fly into action to do triage after the publication of the video and provided the following statement to Breitbart: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAt a regularly scheduled all hands meeting, some Google employees and executives expressed their own personal views in the aftermath of a long and divisive election season. For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings. Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products. To the contrary, our products are built for everyone, and we design them with extraordinary care to be a trustworthy source of information for everyone, without regard to political viewpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"6\"><strong><em><u>There is just no way to spin this anymore: Big Tech has become such a threat to American values that Google, Facebook, Twitter and all of the rest of them need to be either smashed to pieces under antitrust laws or regulated as utilities and preferably both.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><ins><ins><ins><font size=\"6\"><strong><em><u><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"6\"><strong><em><u>And the sooner the better.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How sad\u2026..Bye Bye Google\u2026\u2026. &nbsp; Not that there should be any debate over Silicon Valley\u2019s hatred of President Trump and the 63 million Americans who voted for him but a bombshell video of Google execs engaging in what by any definition is a therapy session after Hillary Clinton\u2019s crushing loss is another damning indictment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looney-left","category-pandering-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}