Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you happen to be in Washington, D.C., she won’t direct you to the Planned Parenthood on 16th St, NW. Instead, she’ll suggest you pay a visit to the 1st Choice Women’s Health Center, an anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) in Landsdowne, Virginia, or Human Life Services, a CPC in York, Pennsylvania. Ask Google the same question, and you’ll get ads for no less than 7 metro-area abortion clinics, 2 CPCs and a nationwide abortion referral service.
Ask in New York City, and Siri will tell you: ‘I didn’t find any abortion clinics.’
10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)
If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon, who have agendas, policies or hidden biases we don’t even know about. Going to test this out and report back.
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Wow. It really disappoints me that Apple has chosen to program Siri like this.
I tried it. In NYC, this is accurate - Siri says “I couldn’t find any abortion clinics.”
Google says otherwise.
I then asked Siri if she was pro-life… she had “no comment”.
Gun shops, however, abound in NYC, at least according to Siri. (There are 7 nearby.)
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