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Well, if anything, this just makes discrete a soft type of censorship which is algorithmically unavoidable and already widespread in non "censored" countries. W
by titzer 8y ago
Well, if anything, this just makes discrete a soft type of censorship which is algorithmically unavoidable and already widespread in non "censored" countries. We're already in a post-truth world, so why not a post-truth internet?
- yourbandsucks 8y agoI don't know why I have to keep repeating this, but "uncensored Google" isn't on the table here. Unfortunately. It's "Google minus political topics" vs "no Google whatsoever". If you enable more connectivity, however imperfect, you're improving things and you're enabling contact between cultures. Maybe that even enables more political information via side channels. It's a slam dunk net positive compared to not engaging at all.
- titzer 8y ago> It's a slam dunk net positive compared to not engaging at all. I appreciate your passion here but I'm going to resist my urge to offer overly definitive statements in the other direction for the sake of further argument. But no, it is not a slam dunk IMHO.