Google Discriminates Against Firearm Shoppers

[hambam105]

And half the dudes complaining about this swear by chenna made apple phones.

[stonefly-2]

There are people in the gun culture still using google?

[BigPimping]

Google is the closest thing to Satan on the planet

[Wherryj]

Your problem is that you are not only using Google, but you are using their spyware program (Chrome). WHY????

[Wherryj]

Google is the closest thing to Satan on the planet

For once, BP is UNDERSTATING the issue!

[Wherryj]

And half the dudes complaining about this swear by chenna made apple phones.

This is one situation where there is no good solution. You can either fund the CCP to build their army to destroy us or you can buy high-end Samsung and fund Google via the OS. (At least you are helping S Korea or Vietnam with the hardware-they don't seem to currently want to kill us.)

I want Elon to make a Muskphone. Starlink network, Musk OS, if made in the USA I'm IN!

[Dougbert66]

Like many social media companies some of us have little choices.

Basic word processing who will you use? Google or MS. Like one is better?
Spreadsheets. Google sheets or excel.
Email. Gmail or Outlook. Oh hey how about yahoo. Jk

OpenOffice was good. LibreOffice and ApacheOpenOffice are the successors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

Not as polished as MS, but also not as bloated. I've been using them for almost 20 years.

[M76]

And half the dudes complaining about this swear by chenna made apple phones.

Have you been to any retail stores lately? Wall to wall stuff made in “chenna”

[Tripplet918]

And half the dudes complaining about this swear by chenna made apple phones.

Please direct us to a US made phone.

[Darto]

These work fine. We have one. Ready to go. Made in Chicago. Plug and play!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/305277264272

[Darto]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204527300562

[Dan_Eastvale]

So, anyone getting rid of their Norinco AKs, SKSs, 1911s, MILSURP parts, and accessories because they're made in Cheena, and part of that purchase money you spent went back to their Peoples' Liberation Army?

[sigfan91]

Like many social media companies some of us have little choices.

Basic word processing who will you use? Google or MS. Like one is better?
Spreadsheets. Google sheets or excel.
Email. Gmail or Outlook. Oh hey how about yahoo. Jk

I use open office from portable apps dot com.

[Scratch705]

There are people in the gun culture still using google?

yeah, if you use a andriod OS cell phone you are using a google product.

so your only other choice is apple, which is just as anti-gun.

there is no other cell phone OS unless you jailbreak your cell phone.

[The Gleam]

As mentioned by several others, it's been going on for several years, but what I find surprising is the blatant and egregious intentional act to block legal, law-abiding activity.

For example, Gunbroker, Gunsamerica, Brownell's, Sportsmans Warehouse, Palmetto State, Riflegear, and dozens of others represent a HUGE dominant presence on the internet when it comes to the topic of firearms and related parts.

And yet, when you do such a search whereby 'for sale' or just general search are performed on a certain make/model of a gun, NO results come back for these sources of any kind.

Doing the same search with DuckDuckGo or other search-engines that don't instill interference, brings up plenty of results from these sources.

I think that some organization or entity like Gunbroker or Palmetto State would have a good case against Google for its monopoly and restrictions on their results over say the same that is realized if you were to search for a certain car, phone, or toothpaste brand, and the results that would come up for those.

They aren't justified in blocking those results due to 'parental controls' which I suppose could be valid if the parent actively wishes to block results - Google is taking it upon themselves to unfairly block a legal product and commerce due to their own biased opinions which has an impact on another legal industry.

I'm not sure under what law related to obstruction of legal commerce that may fall under, but I'm sure some savvy legal hawks could easily figure where that fits, and act on it.

Checking all the reasons Google gives for blocking certain results, it doesn't appear that they have a valid reason to block results related to law-abiding use and retail of firearms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google

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