Google Whistleblower on How Search Engines Are Influencing Elections
Summary
TLDRThe speaker passionately discusses the $7 million investment in a nationwide monitoring system to expose tech giants' manipulations, particularly Google's influence on elections since 2012. They recount personal experiences, including interactions with Google's tech team during Obama's campaign, highlighting how tech can sway votes. The speaker warns of the technological elite's control over public policy and the urgent need for a secure, self-sustaining monitoring system to ensure fair elections and protect against data manipulation by companies like Google.
Takeaways
- 💸 The speaker has spent $7 million to build a nationwide monitoring system to counteract manipulation by tech companies.
- 🔍 They claim to have found evidence of deliberate and systematic interference with elections, particularly since 2012.
- 🗳️ The speaker alleges that free and fair elections at the national level have been manipulated, with tech companies playing a significant role.
- 🤝 The speaker met a member of Obama's tech team who implied that tech manipulation influenced the election results.
- 📊 By 2016, the speaker calculated that Google could shift between 2.6 and 10.4 million votes, which correlates with the popular vote margin.
- 📉 The speaker believes that without Google's influence, the 2020 election would have been much closer or even a tie.
- 🏛️ The speaker suggests that the technological elite, like Google, have become too powerful and are controlling public policy without public awareness.
- 💡 The speaker proposes declaring Google's database a public commons to promote competition and prevent monopolistic control over information.
- 🛡️ The speaker's organization has been attacked by an unknown entity, possibly Google, highlighting the need for better security and funding.
- 🌐 The speaker calls for a large-scale, permanent monitoring system to keep tech companies accountable for their influence on society and elections.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the speaker in this transcript?
-The speaker focuses on the manipulation of elections and public opinion through tech companies like Google. He argues that Google has been influencing elections since 2012, particularly through its control of search results and user data.
How much money has been spent on building the speaker’s monitoring system?
-The speaker states that $7 million has been spent to build the world's first nationwide monitoring system to track the actions of tech companies like Google.
What evidence does the speaker provide about Google's influence on the 2012 election?
-The speaker claims to have spoken to a member of Obama's tech team, who revealed that two of the four points by which Obama won were a result of the tech team's manipulation, suggesting Google played a role in swaying 2.5 million votes.
How does the speaker explain Google's potential impact on the 2016 election?
-The speaker calculated that Google could shift between 2.6 and 10.4 million votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016. He claims that without Google's influence, the popular vote would have been tied.
What does the speaker claim about the outcome of the 2020 election?
-The speaker claims that Google shifted at least 6 million votes to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, influencing the popular vote and the outcomes in swing states.
What warning does the speaker reference from Dwight D. Eisenhower?
-The speaker references Eisenhower's warning about the rise of a 'technological elite' that could control public policy without the public knowing, stating that this has now become a reality with tech companies like Google.
What challenges has the speaker faced in maintaining the monitoring system?
-The speaker describes challenges such as raising money and facing sophisticated cyberattacks, including one that temporarily shut down access to their data for almost two weeks.
What does the speaker believe is the 'business model' of companies like Google?
-The speaker argues that companies like Google use free apps to trick users into giving up personal data, which is then monetized and used to control users.
What does the speaker propose as a solution to Google's dominance?
-The speaker suggests that Google’s search database should be declared a public commons, allowing others to create niche search engines and increasing competition in the search industry.
What does the speaker claim Google is doing with voter registration reminders?
-The speaker claims that Google is sending 'register to vote' reminders to Democrats at a rate 2.5 times higher than to Republicans, which he believes could evolve into partisan voting reminders.
Outlines
🔍 Surveillance and Election Manipulation
The speaker discusses the development of a $7 million nationwide monitoring system designed to counteract manipulation by tech giants, particularly Google. They claim that since 2012, free and fair elections have been compromised through tech manipulation, citing personal experiences and interactions with a Google tech team member who implied their influence in past elections. The speaker alleges that Google could shift millions of votes and points to a video of Google employees expressing their determination to prevent a particular election outcome, suggesting a bias against democracy. They also express frustration with the public's lack of awareness and their own exhaustion from fighting this issue for over a decade.
💔 Personal Struggles and the Need for Security
The speaker shares their personal struggles, including feelings of disillusionment and loneliness following the death of someone named Misty. They discuss the challenges of raising funds for their monitoring project, which has been attacked by sophisticated means, presumably by Google. The attack involved overwhelming their system with activity, leading to a temporary loss of access to their data. The speaker emphasizes the need for a secure facility, servers, and a security team to protect both their data and personnel. They express a desire to reach out to Elon Musk, hoping that he might be interested in and supportive of their cause, given his recent experiences with Twitter and concerns about free speech.
🛡️ Strategies to Counter Tech Monopolies
The speaker proposes a strategy to challenge Google's dominance by declaring their search database a public commons, similar to how governments have intervened in essential services like electricity and telecommunications. This would allow for the creation of niche search engines, fostering competition and innovation in the search industry. They also suggest that monitoring systems are necessary to keep tech companies accountable for their influence on public opinion and elections. The speaker points out that such systems can provide real-time data to counter the manipulative tactics of tech giants, and they call for the establishment of permanent, large-scale monitoring systems to ensure transparency and fairness in elections and public discourse.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Nationwide monitoring system
💡Surveillance
💡Manipulation
💡Tech team
💡Google's influence
💡Partisanship
💡Data monetization
💡Democracy
💡Ephemeral experiences
💡Security breach
💡Public Commons
Highlights
Investment of $7 million in building the world's first nationwide monitoring system to counteract manipulative actions.
Overwhelming evidence of deliberate and systematic interference in elections, particularly since 2012.
Belief that free and fair national elections have been manipulated since 2012, influenced by tech teams.
Revelation of Google's tech team's role in the 2012 election, claiming to have influenced two out of four winning points.
Estimation that Google could shift 2.6 to 10.4 million votes in the 2016 election.
Post-election video of Google leaders vowing to prevent a similar outcome, implying control over democratic processes.
Monitoring data showing Google shifted at least six million votes to Joe Biden in 2020.
The illusion of free and fair elections from 2012 onwards due to technological manipulation.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning about the rise of a technological elite controlling public policy.
The current technological elite's control over public policy and the lack of public awareness.
The business model of tech companies involving the collection and monetization of personal data for control.
The struggle of raising funds for a secure and self-sustaining monitoring system.
Sophisticated attack on the monitoring system by an unknown entity, suspected to be Google.
The need for a secure facility and security team to protect data and people from tech company attacks.
Proposal to declare Google's database a public commons to encourage competition and innovation in search.
The potential for the EU to implement regulations on Google due to their data centers being within the union.
The necessity of permanent large-scale monitoring systems to keep tech companies in check.
Transcripts
the jogan experience I need
help I desperately need pe people's help
so we have spent $7 million building the
world's first
Nationwide monitoring system that is
doing to those bastards what they do to
us and our kids 24 hours a day we are
surveilling them for the first time we
are
finding overwhelming evidence that they
are very deliberately and systematically
messing with us and our elections
especially I personally have believe
that as of 2012 the free and fair
election at least at the national level
has not
existed it's just been manipulated it's
just been manipulated since
2012 I say this in part because I met
one of the people on Google's uh Tech
team on on Obama's Tech Team either I
should say which was being run by Eric
Schmidt head of Google at the time I
talked to him at Great length about what
the tech team was doing they had full
access to all of Google's Shenanigans
all those
manipulations uh and one member of that
team asked by a reporter how many of the
Four Points by which Obama won how many
of those points did he get from the tech
team and the guy said Elon creal I
believe his name is his he was actually
quoted and he said two of the points
came from us now Obama won by 5 million
votes roughly and two out of four points
came from the tech team that's two and a
half million
votes by 2016 I had calculated that
Google could
shift uh and it would be toward Hillary
Clinton of course whom I supported at
the time that Google could shift between
2.6 and 10.4 million votes to Hillary
Clinton in that election with no one
knowing she won the popular vote by 2.8
million votes if you take Google out of
that election the popular vote would
have been
tied couple days after that election
everyone every all the leaders in Google
get up on stage this this I'm sure
you've seen this it's an amazing video
and they're talking to all of Google's
100,000 employees and they're one by one
they're going up to the mic and saying
we are never going to let that happen
again yeah we are never going to let
that happen again which is democracy
they're never going to let democracy
happen again exactly that's what
it's so crazy to be blatantly and openly
talking about that and 2020 we didn't
it's a virtue we already had a pretty
big monitoring system we preserve 1.5
million ephemeral experiences our data
show that Google shifted at least six
million votes to Joe Biden who won the
popular vote by about 8 million so again
take Google out of the
equation that would have been pretty
much a tie in the popular vote and Trump
would have won 11 out of 13 swing States
instead of
five so going forward from roughly
2012 I think the the free and fair
election has been an illusion an
illusion and this is something it's very
weird and kind of ironic but this is
something that Dwight D Eisenhower
warned about in that last speech of his
his farewell speech he warned about the
rise of military-industrial complex
everyone's heard about that but he also
warned about the rise of a technological
Elite that could someday control public
policy without anyone
knowing and the technological Elite are
now in control that's what we have
that's where I get back to my my ranting
and my my pain because I
realize no one is paying attention
Eisenhower said we have to be alert or
this will happen we have not been alert
and the fact is people right this second
who I give speeches to sometimes they
get all riled up and then they walk out
of the auditorium with their
surveillance phones mine is not this is
a secure
phone but they walk out with their
surveillance phones in their pocket and
they use all the surveillance tools that
Google has set up for them and other
companies too
now and they think isn't this nice this
company is doing all this nice stuff for
me and giving me all this free stuff
that's not the business model all those
free things are just apps that trick you
into giving up personal data and then
they monetize the data and they use it
to control you that's what's really
happening that's the business model and
people can't see it and I'm telling you
I've been working on this for 12 years
and it's gotten to the point where I am
wiped out I am fed up I am exhausted I
am
disillusioned
and
um and I'm lonely because since Misty
was killed 5 years ago I sometimes feel
like I'm literally dying of loneliness
and the fact that other people around me
have been hurt one quite one quite
seriously uh makes me a little nervous
too and that's where I am at this point
and it's a it's a terrible place to be
terrible
now it took $7 million to build what
we've built but it's been really tough
okay we're talking about like raising a
dollar at a time it's been really really
difficult and for us to set this up so
that it's actually permanent and self-
sustaining and so we have court
admissible data in all 50 states which
will make these
companies think it'll make them think
think twice
maybe that is going to require at least
another $50
million that gets us a secure facility
and our own servers and a security team
we have virtually no security hear that
Google and they know this because a
couple months ago they attacked us in an
extremely sophisticated way I've never
seen this before when you say they who I
don't know someone I don't know Google
has what did they
do it was very very unusual it was
not it was it was not the usual thing
what they did was they uh they got our
uh our accounts they got our they got
our apps to to run uh kind of at
Ludicrous Speed I guess you could say
and what they did was they pulled in in
more and more and more servers until we
were running so many servers
simultaneously that we actually got shut
down in the
cloud uh and we lost access to our own
data for almost two
weeks now we've never seen an attack
like that even the our security people
had never seen an attack like that it
was really pretty what was the mechanism
of this attack how' they do it we're not
sure how they got in once they got in
all they did was they just C created a
tremendous amount of activity so that
that that pulled in more and more
resources and this is definitely created
this is not organic oh no no it's AB
absolutely created but and and now now
we're now that we know about this
particular kind of attack uh if it
happens again we'll be up within two
days max but uh the point is there's a
lot of pressure on us so we need a lot
of money to set up a secure Facility
have security teams not just protecting
our data for protecting our people we
have to protect our
people uh have you ever talked to Elon
about this stuff I I've never had a way
to reach him well hopefully someone will
take this clip and put it on X and he's
a junkie He he'll be on it all day so so
hopefully someone will put it to his
attention and put it up there because
I'm sure this is very concerning to him
I mean he has a a vested interest in
this clearly what happened when he
purchased Twitter and he found out the
extent of government interference in
free speech and uh how many uh people
were being pressured to uh not talk
about certain things that were
inconvenient or how many accounts they
were trying to get taken down because
these accounts were uh purveyors of
misinformation that turned out to be
absolutely accurate there's uh he has a
a deep distrust for sure well he he has
a few times lately he has retweeted
content about my work so aware he might
be he might be
aware uh and there's another way also by
the way to take down Google uh which I
the I published this in Bloomberg
businessweek if you if you go to Epstein
and businessweek.com you'll actually see
the article
and
it's we've reached the point where data
become an essential part of our lives
and the way to take down Google is to do
what governments have been doing for
hundreds of years to declare their index
the database they use to generate search
results to be a public
Commons this is exactly what governments
do when water uh electricity telephone
Communications any commodity any service
becomes essential governments at some
point have to step in the electric
companies they were all privately owned
I didn't know that I didn't realize that
they were all privately owned until the
government had to step in and this is
where we are now with data and the
biggest baddest database in the world is
Google's because it's the gateway to all
knowledge it needs to be declared a
public Commons as I say ample precedent
for that in law it's very light touch
regulation and what it'll do is it'll
allow other people to draw from the
database to create their
own Niche search engines so you know
you'll create a search engine for people
interested in U DMT and UFOs some it
will create one for women for
lithuanians for you know we'll end up
with thousands of these search engines
all of which V are vying for attention
it will be exactly like the news exactly
like the news the the news media that
domain and that's the way it should be
search should be competitive Google
Google was not the first search engine
it was the
21st so that's how you do it and also
then search would become Innovative
again there have been there have been no
Innovations in search for the 20 years
that Google has dominated surge so uh uh
General Paxton Ken Paxton of of this
this great state of Texas he's
interested in this uh uh Senator Cruz is
interested other people are interested
this would be tough to implement in the
US but the EU could do it because five
of Google's data centers are in the EU
the EU could do it in a
Flash and they're very frustrated with
Google because they've been trying to
keep them under control for a long time
now and they've
failed so there are some things that
could be done permanent large scale
monitoring system that is a necessity
that must be there cuz if you don't have
that you don't know what these companies
are doing you don't know how they're
messing with our minds with our kids
minds and with our elections you have to
monitor and you have to have court
admissible data in every state and
probably in every country and then they
will pull back a little bit because they
have to they're violating campaign
Finance laws when they when they very
blatantly support one candidate or one
party the they're making huge in-kind
donations without declaring them so
another thing they're doing right now
perfect example of something our system
is capturing right the second right this
second Google is sending register to
vote reminders to Democrats at about two
and a half times the rate they're
sending them to
Republicans how do I know because that's
that's what the monitoring system shows
that's what they're doing at some point
that's going to turn into partisan mail
in your ballot reminders and then that
turns into partisan go vote
reminders these are just displayed on
Google's homepage we're capturing the
homepages by the millions if you don't
capture them then the content is
ephemeral and it disappears and it's
gone forever and you can't go back in
time and figure out what they were doing
so monitoring is no longer optional it's
it and it by the way monitoring is fast
unlike uh you know regulations and laws
monitoring can keep up with whatever the
tech company is dishing out the next
company the next Google after that
monitoring can keep up you if you're
going to have an
internet and it can mess with people's
lives and it can mess with governments
and elections and so on then you've got
to have monitoring systems in place
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