As we’ve discussed, ‘2016: Obama’s America’ director Dinesh D’Souza was very upset that the search results for his latest film, ‘America’ were misleading, alleging that Google was part of a massive conspiracy to keep people from hearing how great America is. I’m sure that was definitely it, and not the fact that the movie was called “America.” Thankfully, we now have a UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN, specifically Dana Rohrabacher, pictured above with Doobie Brothers guitarist Skunk Baxter and his calculator watch, who is making this open-and-shut case of SEObatage his highest priority.
Democracy works!
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a frequent foe of Google, is demanding to know why the giant Internet company was fumbling the search results for DineshD’Souza’s movie America for nearly three weeks.
Shortly after the movie opened wide on July 2, the filmmakers complained to Google that Internet users looking for showtimes and locations were sometimes misdirected to the wrong movie. On other occasions, an image of the film’s poster was incorrect or a description of the movie was wrong.
Rohrabacher tells The Hollywood Reporter that he’s so disturbed by Google’s behavior he intends on discussing it Wednesday during the House Republican Conference, which is the party caucus for Republicans in the House of Representatives.
“This doesn’t deserve to be ignored. We need to verify the statistics in some way, and I will be suggesting the appropriate committee or subcommittee have some kind of hearing on this,” Rohrbacher said. “We know there were significant incidences, and that would suggest there was intent behind Google’s nonperformance.”
“I spoke to several people and some said they had problems with the search and some said they didn’t. If there was an intent to confuse the public about this movie because of its ideological content, then we’re going to find out about it,” Rohrabacher said. “This charge has captured the attention of those of us who see that Google has acted arrogantly in a number of areas.”
“I’m not threatening to shut them down, but shining a spotlight on a corporation that is acting in an abusive way can have as great an impact as legislation or regulation,” Rohrabacher said. ” If Google isn’t informing the public about movies they disagree with, then that needs to be exposed.” [THR]
Is there a way that we could use the democratic process to ensure that both these idiots get melvined? Because I think that’s the most rational response. It’s a little too asinine for a tarring and feathering, but I think a public melvining would be just right. By the way, a congressman vowing to investigate how the internet works is like a Haitian witch doctor vowing to get to the bottom of quantum physics.