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<\/p>\nRUSH: There\u2019s a congressional hearing going on today. The same House committee, the Judiciary Committee. This is a hearing into antitrust monopolistic practices of big tech. You have Tim Cook from Apple there. You got Zuckerberg from Facebook there. You\u2019ve got Bezos from Amazon there. You got the Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, Pichai, whatever his name is. They\u2019re all there, and they\u2019re being hit hard by Jim Jordan and others.<\/p>\n
The purpose of the hearing is multifaceted, as you will hear in a sound bite we have of Jim Jordan. He\u2019s choosing to go after them for their anti-conservative bias, particularly Google and Facebook: Their search results — in case of Google — and Facebook for their shadow banning and Twitter. Jack Dorsey\u2019s there as well.<\/p>\n
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And then there are others who are going after them on monopolistic grounds like Apple and its App Store and the fact that basically these people have no competitors. And when a competitor pops up, they buy them and shut them down and silence them. So there\u2019s… It\u2019s, as I say, a multifaceted attack on Big Tech.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now to the audio sound bites. Here is Alex Marlow. Alex Marlow was on with Tucker Carlson last night<\/a>. Alex Marlow is the editor-in-chief at Breitbart, and this is an example of how Google is essentially trying to erase Breitbart from existing via its search engine. So Tucker Carlson\u2019s question: “Give us an example of what you\u2019ve learned that Google is doing to your site.”<\/p>\n MARLOW: Gradually since the 2016 election, Google\u2019s been diminishing our search results — and then all of a sudden, in May of this year, we virtually lost all Google traffic, all search traffic altogether. Let me give you some specific pieces of data: A Google track, something called a visibility index. This is sort of like their Nielsen score.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when your content shows up on one of their pages. Breitbart\u2019s is down 99.77%. Overall, our Google traffic is down nearly two-thirds. If you want to search for Joe Biden or Biden, the chance of you getting a Breitbart article are virtually zero, virtually no opportunity for you to get it — unless, of course, you add the word “Breitbart.”<\/p>\n RUSH: All right. Now, I know there\u2019s a number of different reactions that you can have to this. A, it\u2019s obvious what Google is doing here. They are practicing censorship, and they\u2019re doing everything they can, via their search engine and results, to eliminate conservative websites. They are also using — the fact that they control internet advertising, to deprive conservative websites of any Google-related advertising.<\/p>\n And most of the advertising on the internet sadly is run through Google. They own it. It is their primary source of income. And they are defunding conservative websites and blogs. And they\u2019re also eliminating conservative websites and backlogs from any search results. Now, you can argue, “It\u2019s unfair, they shouldn\u2019t be.” But look. They\u2019re Google. They can do what they want to do. The idea that we should expect a bunch of leftists to treat us fairly is kind of naive.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t want to be cruel here, but Google is what it is. I mean, if you\u2019re gonna end up somehow becoming dependent on them, then you ought to realize that at some point they\u2019re gonna turn on you. It\u2019s like the story of the scorpion and the frog, or pick your animal. Scorpion hitches a ride across a lake on the back of a turtle. And the turtle says, “I don\u2019t want to take you because you\u2019re gonna kill me.”<\/p>\n “No, no, no, I won\u2019t, I won\u2019t, you\u2019re gonna save my life, you\u2019re gonna get me across the lake.” So the turtle takes the scorpion across the lake. And as sure as you can count it, they get to the other side, the scorpion stings the turtle and kills it. And the turtle, “I thought you said that you weren\u2019t gonna sting me.”<\/p>\n And the scorpion said, “What did you think I was gonna do? I\u2019m a scorpion. It\u2019s what I do. I sting you.” Google is the scorpion. Now, maybe when this all started Google was fair or more fair than they are now. But to expect a bunch of leftists — this would be like expecting the Democrat Party to give us access and to have the Democrat Party promote our point of view for 40 or 50% of the day. We would never expect that to happen.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s what this hearing is about today. The monopolistic power that these tech companies have — and there\u2019s always the threat of antitrust legislation unless they straighten up. But the Democrats are not gonna do anything to harm Google. The Democrats are not gonna do anything to harm Facebook. The Democrats aren\u2019t gonna do anything to harm Twitter.<\/p>\n And the Democrats run the House. So the idea that the Democrats are going to do anything to damage their political partners? That\u2019s kind of the wrong expectation. I want you to hear nevertheless Jim Jordan during his — I guess this is his opening statement today. This is how he kicked off what he thinks this is all about.<\/p>\n JORDAN: I\u2019ll just cut to the chase. Big tech\u2019s out to get conservatives. That\u2019s not a suspicion. That\u2019s not a hunch. That\u2019s a fact. July 20 of 2020 Google removed the home pages of Breitbart and The Daily Caller. Just last night we learned Google has censored Breitbart so much, traffic has declined 99%. June 16th, 2020, Google threatened to demonetize and ban The Federalist. June 29th, 2020, Amazon bans President Trump\u2019s account on Twitch after he raises concerns about defunding the police. June 4th, 2020, Amazon bans a book critical of the coronavirus lockdown written by a conservative commentator.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/tucker.png\")
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<\/a>And yet there is this expectation that Google should. “Well, but it\u2019s the only search engine.” No, it\u2019s not the only search engine. There\u2019s all kinds of search engines out there. There\u2019s DuckDuckGo<\/a>. There\u2019s Bing<\/a>, which is Microsoft. Look, I don\u2019t want to appear to be insensitive. Because I understand. I understand the problem. Google is the search engine of search engines. And they ought to be playing fair since they have so much power.<\/p>\n