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namesbcon Google’s become an obsessive stalker

Let me try to summarize your argument.

1) Google posted about putting healthier snacks closer to eye level in employee kitchens.

2) Unsubstantiated claim that Google has a corrupt influence on the US Government.

3) Google Ideas helped create a visualization of Syrian officials who publically opposed the government for the newspaper Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/syriadefections...

Therefore, Google is manipulating search results in favor of Hillary Clinton.

It is difficult for me to believe that you take your own arguments seriously

namesbcon Google’s become an obsessive stalker

"Thou shalt not quote logical fallacies unless one has read its definition first" -- Argument 10:1

There's no proof that Google is manipulating search results, and when anyone fabricates a new possible manipulation it is immediately debunked. And yet you still want me to prove the negative. I'm not asking for a key proof, I'm asking for any proof.

namesbcon Google’s become an obsessive stalker

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

namesbcon Google’s become an obsessive stalker

Are you trying to parody a debunked conspiracy theorist? You are good, but your "isn't really a solid proof of Google manipulating results, but that doesn't mean it's true that they aren't" line that gave you away as a parody account.

namesbcon Google’s become an obsessive stalker

Well respected? Robert Epstein is the idiot who served malware through his website and when Google displayed a warning about it, Epstein didn't try to fix the problem, he instead went legal and news nuclear claiming Google was trying to censor him.

namesbcon Google’s become an obsessive stalker

Sigh. Continued belief in debunked conspiracy theories is one of humanities worst traits. The moon landing was real, the earth is not flat, and Google is not manipulating search results.

namesbcon Google collects metadata from Android phones

This clause was carried over from the Google Voice privacy policy when Google merged all of their policies into one in 2012.

namesbcon Governor Brown's housing proposal could mean sweeping Bay Area changes

71% of the homeless population in SF (who are now living in tent cities) used to live in a home in SF: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/What-San-Francisc...

namesbcon JSON in URLs

A JSON like syntax that is URL query compatible sounds like a great solution to me. Rison tried this approach a couple years back: https://github.com/Nanonid/rison

namesbcon Neelie Kroes responds to taxi protests in Europe

Or rather think about all of the new drivers enabled by Lyft, Uber, etc. These new drivers now have a livelihood that wasn't possible under the medallion taxi cartel.

namesbcon The Uber-truth about the slavery economy

For an alternative opinion: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458816,00.asp

With Uber drivers making more than double what cabbies make, it seems that Uber is actually freeing the cabbies from the "slavery" of medallions.