Episode 336 Scott Adams: How Google is Ruining my Life for Political Reason

Date: 2018-12-13 | Duration: 12:27

Topics

Google Scott Adams… Google search results 4 and 5 are phony pix of me in Nazi uniform Click the 4th link, goes to a phony Twitter account, 15 followers Is Google intentionally trying to screw me over? If the photos remains up, is Google trying to destroy me? If it remains up, Google’s message seems clear and intentional

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[0:05]

boom boom boom boom ba-ba-boom ba-ba-boom hey everybody get in here are you curious about the title of this periscope I'll wait for a moment before I launch into it I like to have at least a thousand people on here to know you're serious yes you are curious so as you know Google recently did and I have to warn you there's a very high likelihood there will be some cursing involved in this I'm gonna try not to but I'm not sure I can hold it in and I needed to I need a second opinion on this so I'm using you all as my sort of my let's say my regulator I want to find out if I'm overreacting okay so you know that Google was recently called in front of Congress to ask about among other things

[1:09]

Congress to ask about among other things their their bias in terms of being anti conservative you may or may not know that I'm not a conservative but I talked about President Trump all the time and I guess that's enough I guess that's enough so somebody alerted me to this fact if you go to Google right now and you google my name do you know what comes up well I'll show it to you so there's several pictures here on this little slider first three you're just well the first three are just ordinary pictures but the fourth and the fifth are photoshopped pictures of me wearing Nazi uniform now these are real pictures that people have memed up on on Twitter and somewhere else but here's the thing if you click through to those pictures they are the least smallest most minor mention of me

[2:11]

smallest most minor mention of me compared to everything I've been doing for years so I'm asking myself and then I'm gonna ask you as well do you think given that so one of these clicks through one of the pictures of me wearing a photoshopped Nazi uniform if you click through it goes to a fake Twitter account that's pretending to be me
me there has only 15 followers do you think that a fake Twitter account with 15 followers would have enough traffic that Google's algorithm would pick that of all the pictures there are of me there are a lot of pictures of me in the public domain and in in articles I was probably in I don't know 25 major articles last year alone and this one little 15 user fake Twitter account is

[3:12]

little 15 user fake Twitter account is the fourth image that comes up and then the fifth image is you know another Photoshop of me in the Nazi uniform and if you click on that it goes to this tiny little blog like thing that doesn't even have this picture this picture isn't even on the site that it connects to and it's the tiniest little site I'd never seen before is there any chance in the whole world that Google is not trying to ruin my life am I overreacting is there even the smallest chance that Google isn't trying to my whole life right in public now I'm open to the possibility I'm open to the possibility that this is accidental but I don't think so and don't you think I need an explanation from Google perhaps or CEO

[4:15]

explanation from Google perhaps or CEO this is criminal in my opinion it might not technically be illegal but in terms of
of yeah how messed up it is to use a word that I've seen three it's criminal now it's criminal in you know in impact
now here's the thing I'm spending a good deal of my time trying to make the world a better place in a variety of ways one of those ways is helping the the you know the urban areas and if there's anything that I can do to make race relations better etc I'm all-in most of you've been watching me long enough to know that that's that's a true statement so this is not only awful behavior that will haunt me for the rest of my life

[5:15]

will haunt me for the rest of my life because these pictures never go away that's what's given come up if you google it and even when people say ha I know it's a joke it's still kind of out there right no I don't know if it legally crosses any line for defamation or anything else but if it doesn't go away in a week or so I'll give them some time I'm sure people there must be Google people watching this watching this if it doesn't go away I'm going to react I'm going to give us some time because I know that the last thing I want to do is act on something when I'm as angry as I am now and by the way this is the most angry you've ever seen me I'm doing everything I can to hold it in alright if it doesn't change on its own because I'm sure people hear about it I'm sure it'll become a story I'm sure

[6:15]

I'm sure it'll become a story I'm sure Google Google will hear about it by the time I'm done with this if it doesn't change don't I have to assume that it's intentional and malicious and that one of the biggest companies in the world has targeted me personally for Destruction how in the world could I think other give me any other explanation they could explain this somebody says 48 hour rule it's good rule right 48 hours I'm gonna wait 48 hours now I've asked I reported the Twitter account to Twitter so I'm imagine Twitter doesn't look at every single account so until it's reported nobody has a reason to take it down but now I've reported it now I don't have a beef with Twitter about this particular thing because I've

[7:16]

this particular thing because I've reported it and it hasn't been long enough maybe they'll just take it down obviously they should you know if it would fit their rules because it's somebody impersonating me and it doesn't have a parody on it I think it's just impersonating me so but Google's got some explaining because I don't know if there's even a technique is there a way to report something on Google Images is that a thing if there is I'll do that but I don't know if that's a thing what can we do to help you well I'm looking for an opinion is there anybody watching this who thinks that this could be organic because it might be you know I if there's anything if there's anything that I've taught you consistently if you're watching my periscopes it's that sometimes you can't imagine what the actual explanation is and they're just

[8:18]

actual explanation is and they're just ordinary explanations first stuff so it's good to wait 48 hours somebody gives you a better explanation somebody clarifies maybe it wasn't what you thought it was but given that Google was just in front of Congress for this sort of thing you have to ask the question
uh-uh hier Dershowitz I don't think alan dershowitz works on cases like this but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make a decision about what to do about it for 48 hours I will say I'm really the last person you'd want to piss off if there's anybody in the world that you'd want to piss off I'd be about last on that list cuz I'm relentless but is

[9:25]

that list cuz I'm relentless but is there anybody on here who can talk me out of this can anybody give me even even a suggestion that this is not intentional because I don't see it I don't see it it looks intentional to me but I like to be talked down in it alright that is all I wanted to say on this this periscope and I swear this is changing my behavior when do you I only noticed it today somebody apparently if you google me in Europe those pictures come up even closer to the top so in Europe I'm even more of a Nazi apparently teach you how to fight Google - trust me if these pictures are still up on Google in a week I am going full out on Google Google does not know

[10:26]

out on Google Google does not know what's coming I could make more trouble for Google than they've ever had in the history of their company and and would absolutely would they just won't know it's coming from me so but I don't want to assume yet don't want to assume we'll give them 48 hours I'll give him a week I'll check back with you in a week and I'll let you know
how embarrassing to be Google right now I mean just the fact even if this is just accidental even if their algorithm just sort of accidentally kicked up these images anything's possible right even if it's accidental how embarrassing to be management of Google right now to literally be be serving up pictures of someone who's fighting for some kind of a better world

[11:27]

fighting for some kind of a better world for everybody as an actual Nazi
it's funny I've got more traffic on this this periscope that I've had of anything recently people like to see me angry I'm not sure you should encourage that it's not a good look yeah well Google buys more ink by the barrel than I do how embarrassing for a Google I mean seriously this is really embarrassing for them I mean for me it's bad but I you know I'm a public figure and I'm you sort of used to this sort of stuff but how embarrassing for them all right that's it that's all I got to say I'll talk to you later