Political candidate opinions aside, is it acceptable that Google is now manually censoring the autocorrect algorithim to prevent a certain presidential candidate from appearing negatively?

 

If you go to Google's search engine and you will notice that the phrase "Crooked Hillary" is nearly entirely scrubbed from its autocorrect. However, if you type the phrase "Lying Ted" and "Crazy Bernie", both monikers given by Donald Trump immediately appear after a few letters. By now, Crooked Hillary is a much more frequently used term than "Lying Ted" and "Crazy Bernie". In fact, Google Trends even shows how "Crooked Hillary" is a way more trending phrase

 



 

If you type "Crooked Hillary" out entirely, it actually autocorrects to "Crooked Hillary Bernie". Isn't that silly? On Bing and Yahoo, and most search engines with autocorrect, the "Crooked Hillary" is almost immediately autocorrected after a few letters.

 




Google is a private company and can do what it wants, but should such a prolific and widely used enterprise have some neutrality when it comes to political agendas? Specifically when it is such a proponent of net neutrality?

 

There is also evidence of Google censoring negative images of Hillary Clinton as well as news stories which can be discussed as well.

 

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