This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Thursday, August 30, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

After what may have been an unsatisfactory Google News search, the president questions

whether or not Google's algorithm is discriminating against him and may be thus deserving

of greater federal scrutiny.

John Samples, Vice President at the Cato Institute,

discusses why the President's claims challenge

both Google's own interests and the Constitution.

As the President often does, he wonders aloud after spending some time either watching

television or reading some things on the internet, and most recently is very concerned about the way

that he's being treated by Google News search results so what what do you understand

about that?

He seems to be saying that he believes the people at Google have manipulated the algorithm, the search algorithm,

that is at the heart of their business model, to

negatively reflect on his administration and on him. He does that on the basis of a search which apparently

he himself did not do since he doesn't use a computer, but that he learned about and the

search was for Trump news and he thinks it has too much of the

what I would call the mainstream media and he calls various derogatory things and too little good

about his own administration. So then he goes to the idea that this is somehow illegal and that his administration needs to be addressing it in one way or the other.

So it's essentially, if we can look at it a number of ways but one way to think about this from a

libertarian point of view is you have a large private institution which has been extraordinarily

successful both in terms of its market size, its profits, its share

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