Rep. Steve King doesn’t understand how Google search works
After @SteveKingIA raises inscrutable concerns about iPhones, Google CEO Sunday Pichai patiently informs him, "Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company." pic.twitter.com/TiNZ1t3VRo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2018
During a 2018 hearing with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, there was quite a lot of confused going around, especially from representatives who obviously did not have an idea of how Google worked, or much inclination at all to, you know… Google it.
Pichai was there to talk about privacy and data collection, two important subjects for a company that has routinely failed to give answers on either. Unfortunately, some congressmen took the time to focus on how Google’s search holds perceived bias against conservatives.
Take Iowa Rep. Steve King. He told the story of his 7-year-old granddaughter who got onto her phone to play “some kind of game a kid her age would play” who then supposedly saw an advertisement showing a depiction of her grandfather with some example of foul language, the kind of thing one wouldn’t dare to say at a congressional hearing.
“But I’d ask you, how does that kind of language show up on a 7-year-old’s iPhone?” King asked. He asked… Google’s CEO… about an iPhone.
Pichai seemed to take a long breath, then pointed out how his company did not make iPhones, to which King responded “It might have been an Android. It was a hand-me-down of some type.”
