BRUTAL Cartoon Brilliantly Illustrates Censorship In 2018

Google Censoring Jesus – by Calvin Freiburger

Anybody beginning to see a pattern here?

In the latest example of the lengths to which Google will go to slant political and social messages through its services, Fox 17 News in Nashville reports that a Brentwood resident named David Sams decided to test out his Google Home, an internet-connected unit that can answer questions and control a variety of devices through voice commands, with a simple question: “Who is Jesus Christ?”

Google Home’s answer: “I’m not sure how to help you with that.”

“I even asked Google who is David Sams? Google knew who I was, but Google did not know who Jesus was, Google did not know who Jesus Christ was, and Google did not know who God was,” Sams said […]

“It’s kinda scary, it’s almost like Google has taken Jesus and God out of smart audio,” Sams said. “First it started with schools.”

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Google Home refers to Jesus Christ when asking about the Last Supper and even Saint Peter.

And there’s plenty of information on the prophet Muhammed, Buddha — even Satan […]

“I don’t know if there’s some kind of wizard making these decisions or if it’s some kind of oversight,” Sams said. “But whatever it is, they need to address it immediately.”

Fox 17 reports that social media is full of videos of people testing this out and getting the same result, though its piece doesn’t include any. Here are a couple of examples:

Curiously, the article notes that Sams got a different answer when he posed the same question to his Alexa, a competing device sold by Amazon, but doesn’t say what the answer was. However, TFPP reported back in November that when conservative commentator Steven Crowder tested it out, Alexa gave him an even worse answer — that “Jesus Christ is a fictional character” (while the Prophet Muhammad was not only real, but “very wise”).

As TFPP has previously covered, the politicization of Google services billed as non-biased means of accessing information is a rapidly growing problem — from partnering with left-wing propaganda groups to designate conservative voices as “hate” sites; to “fact-checking” algorithms that promote rather than expose fake news; to slanting the results of their search engines and an internal culture generally hostile to independent thought:

Now, combine that massive power to influence people with Google’s stated political ideology. Their leadership actively campaigned for Hillary Clinton. They recently fired James Damore, a techie who dared to challenge the prevailing leftist notion that all men are equal to all women at all times and in all ways and that the prevalence of men in the technology industry might not be a result of some sort of capitalist-patriarchal-sexist culture.

As for this latest example, unless there are other large gaps in these devices’ recognition of major historical and cultural names, it’s hard to see how these results would be anything other than intentional. Strategically, they’re bizarre, too — not even the most militant atheist pretends not to even recognize the name, and while some secularists are so radical as to deny there ever was at least a mortal man named Jesus of Nazareth, most people recognize His mere existence is a separate question from whether or not He was the Son of God. So, serving no other discernible purpose, censoring Christ reeks of pure, simple pettiness.

And pettiness is the last thing any sane society should want in the mix among people who control such a wildly disproportionate share of the world’s information flow.

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