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I'm not terribly surprised that once again Stallman understates complexity of something he doesn't understand. To him making sure that incoming data isn't pre-f
by DominikD 10y ago
I'm not terribly surprised that once again Stallman understates complexity of something he doesn't understand. To him making sure that incoming data isn't pre-filtered is as simple as making sure that all of the narrowed query results are part of the broader query results. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
I'll try and apply this kind of reductionism to something else: if search engines are this simple, how come there's no viable GNU alternative to Google? Absurd, I know, and so are Stallman's ramblings. It's OK to hold DDG to a higher standards that anyone else out there. But talking nonsense out of lack of understanding violates the same higher standards we should expect from rms.
- srtjstjsj 10y agoStallman proposes a simple way to test for censorship; he does not claim how to design a search engine.
- tagawa 10y agoEven that censorship test understates the complexity of the problem. For example, "how to make playing cards" is not a superset of "how to make playing cards disappear".
- tedunangst 10y agoPretty sweet test: Google for "apple" then Google for "apple pie". Observe that none of the results for the second query appear for the first. Conclusion: Google is unamerican and censors information about apple pie.