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===Interference with Trump presidency===
===Interference with Trump presidency===
Owing to all of the above, Google has been accused of trying to stifle conservative voices (especially those that support Trump) and only allowing for left-wing viewpoints to be shown on the search engine. Although Google twice denied these claims, this was eventually confirmed on September 12, 2018, via a leaked video via Breitbart for the TGIF session immediately after Donald Trump's election, where the upper management not only made their views of the American public clear by inferring that those who voted for Donald Trump were "fascists and communists", but also strongly implied that they were going to dedicate all of their resources to making sure the rise of populism is squashed.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NE&feature=youtu.be</ref><ref>Bokhari, Allum (September 12, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/ LEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership’s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 14, 2018.</ref><ref>Freiburger, Calvin (September 17, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/top-google-leaders-vowed-to-alter-future-elections-to-avoid-trump-hiccup-le Top Google leaders vowed to alter future elections to avoid Trump ‘hiccup’: leaked video]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved September 19, 2018.</ref> Google also was caught trying to increase [[Latino]] turnout in the 2016 election.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (September 14, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/30073-google-caught-red-handed-tried-to-get-clinton-elected Google Caught Red-handed: Tried to Get Clinton Elected]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 14, 2018.</ref>
Owing to all of the above, Google has been accused of trying to stifle conservative voices (especially those that support Trump) and only allowing for left-wing viewpoints to be shown on the search engine. Although Google twice denied these claims, this was eventually confirmed on September 12, 2018, via a leaked video via Breitbart for the TGIF session immediately after Donald Trump's election, where the upper management not only made their views of the American public clear by inferring that those who voted for Donald Trump were "fascists and communists", but also strongly implied that they were going to dedicate all of their resources to making sure the rise of populism is squashed.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NE&feature=youtu.be</ref><ref>Bokhari, Allum (September 12, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/ LEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership’s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 14, 2018.</ref><ref>Freiburger, Calvin (September 17, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/top-google-leaders-vowed-to-alter-future-elections-to-avoid-trump-hiccup-le Top Google leaders vowed to alter future elections to avoid Trump ‘hiccup’: leaked video]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved September 19, 2018.</ref> Google also was caught trying to increase [[Latino]] turnout in the 2016 election.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (September 14, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/30073-google-caught-red-handed-tried-to-get-clinton-elected Google Caught Red-handed: Tried to Get Clinton Elected]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 14, 2018.</ref>
===Opposing industry standards===
In addition to their political activities, Google has caused some controversy within its own industry by refusing to comply with industry standards. Since they own the most popular web browser and the most popular search engine (at least withing the US), they have decided that they can bring about changes they believe are needed despite what the rest of the industry has decided.<br />
For example, the norm is that users are only logged into a service when they request it, and when they attempt to delete the cookies in their browser, the browser does so. However, Google decided in 2018 to automatically log users into their google accounts, and protect the google cookies own cookies from deletion, so that Google's cookies could not be deleted by the user (through the browser).<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-login-privacy/</ref><ref>https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17895536/google-chrome-69-log-in-sync-password-user-data-privacy</ref><br />
As another example, Google search was changed in 2018 to hide certain subdomains, including the "www" which many websites use. Users only would see the domain name and the [[TLD]], while the rest was masked. Further, the search engine would link users to sites which were using the "www" subdomain without that subdomain, so the site would need to redirect users to the proper location. Google knew this was not what the sites wanted, but chose to make this change anyway.<ref>https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-security-risk-hiding-subdomains/</ref><ref>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-testing-removal-of-www-subdomain-from-search-results/</ref><ref>https://technocodex.com/google-removed-www-and-m-subdomains-in-chrome-69-how-to-disable-it/</ref> Not only is this inconvenient, but masking parts of URLs in inherently dangerous, since attackers can abuse such features to trick users into trusting a fraudulent site or page. The industry standard is, therefore, to show users the entire link which they have used to connect.<br />
Also in 2018, Google decided to make an additional change. They began trying to force websites to begin using the Hyper-text transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) rather than the older standard HTTP. While HTTPS is helpful, some webpages have reason to not use HTTPS. While the industry is moving slowly to HTTPS, Google decided to begin interfering with the loading and interaction in Chrome of sites which are not using HTTPS for their pages and all of the content therein. This caused many users to experience problems visiting websites, simply because Google no longer approved of sites using HTTP.
==International Agitation==
==International Agitation==