She's suing Google. Her argument isn't that Google discriminates against conservatives but that Google censors any voice that would threaten Google's monopoly.
She's got a strong case. She cites all the conservative groups that Google censors that call for an end to social media platforms to censor content that is legal but which doesn't conform to the ideology that Google employees embrace.
She points out that in the 2016 election at least one study has shown that Google's search biases--they rigged their algorithm to help Hillary, might have led to an extra 2.6 million votes for Hillary. That makes sense when Gabbard also points out that during the 2016 election Google related individuals gave $1,200,000 to Hillary and $26,000 to Trump. Clearly Google wanted Hillary to win so it's not surprising that they tried to help in any way possible.
While mushy Republicans say that since Google is a private company it can do whatever it wants the reality is that that has never been the case. Imagine if when AT&T had a monopoly on phone service it prevented anyone who was pushing for AT&T to be broken up to use a phone; that's what Google is doing today. Do you think that the fact that AT&T was a private company would have been used as an argument to justify that action?
Of course not. Google is as much of a monopoly today as Standard Oil was back in the last millennia and so arguing that because they're a private company they can do what they want isn't a conservative position it's an oligarchical one.
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