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Quite frankly, it might not be the worst solution. Britain has a government-sponsored TV station which is generally pretty well-regarded, for example...
by clock_tower 11y ago
Quite frankly, it might not be the worst solution. Britain has a government-sponsored TV station which is generally pretty well-regarded, for example...
- nickff 11y agoSo we'll all be happy to do our searches through NSA.gov? Or would you prefer the alternative, google.nsa.gov? We can even make searches like FOIA requests, where if you search something they don't like, they redact the results you wanted, and if you don't phrase the search correctly, they just give you nothing.
- yarou 11y agoGovernment-sponsored is totally different than government-led. China has the latter in terms of their search engine.
- clock_tower 11y agoIndeed -- but the grandparent talked about "government-sponsored."
- leereeves 11y agoThe BBC is sponsored by a licence fee collected from British people, whether they want to pay for the BBC or not. Similarly, if the government pays for a search engine, they'll be paying with taxes taken from us anyway.
- majewsky 11y agoYeah, so?
- leereeves 11y agoSo what's better about paying via taxes instead of paying directly?
- majewsky 11y agoWhen something is paid for directly (and consequentially cannot be afforded by some), it will be biased towards the opinions of its backers, and thus, the wealthy.
- leereeves 11y agoAnd when it's paid for by the government, it will be biased towards the opinions of government officials, their backers, and thus, the wealthy (or the influential, in a political system where money has less influence than in the US).