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I believe search engines and social media should be held liable for the content they distribute. They could choose to moderate the content more closely, or if t

I believe search engines and social media should be held liable for the content they distribute. They could choose to moderate the content more closely, or if that is too expensive for their business model, they could enter agreements with content creators who want their content appearing in searches or online. They can counter sue the content creators. Our society and our democracies are suffering under the vast amount of disinformation. Nobody knows what to believe or who to trust. What's real and what's bullshit. Something needs to change.

gus_massa 7y ago
> they could enter agreements with content creators who want their content appearing in searches or online So if you create a new business you must pay a Google tax to be indexed. What about Bing? If you have an obscure blog about gardening or ponies or microprocessors you must pay some fee to Google to get indexed. Is it a one time fee or it's yearly? I guess you can have a page in Facebook and they will make some arrangement with Google. The big wallet garden host can make some similar deal (probably in exchange of placing ads in your page). What about personal pages of the professors in the universities? There is a lot of good material there, some courses have almost all the material online.
- jay_kyburz 7y ago
  Yeah um, that's basically how Google works now. If you want to get into search results you have to buy ads. I'm sure the Universities will cover the liability costs of their professors. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
  - gus_massa 7y ago
    A few months ago, I wanted a recipe with a nice photo of a "salty croissants with tallow" (medialuna de grasa, they are popular here in Argentina, sorry for the horrible translation). https://www.google.com/search?q=medialuna+de+grasa&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=medialuna+de+grasa&tbm=isch This looks nice: https://www.johaprato.com/receta/medialunas-de-grasa https://www.johaprato.com/receta/medialunas-de-grasa Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?oe&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=es&client=tw-ob&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.johaprato.com%2Freceta%2Fmedialunas-de-grasa https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?oe&um=1&ie=UTF-8&h... I don't get ads neither in the image search nor in the normal search. The results look quite organic. Most of them are from professional or semiprofesional cooking blogs.

gus_massa 7y ago

> they could enter agreements with content creators who want their content appearing in searches or online So if you create a new business you must pay a Google tax to be indexed. What about Bing? If you have an obscure blog about gardening or ponies or microprocessors you must pay some fee to Google to get indexed. Is it a one time fee or it's yearly? I guess you can have a page in Facebook and they will make some arrangement with Google. The big wallet garden host can make some similar deal (probably in exchange of placing ads in your page). What about personal pages of the professors in the universities? There is a lot of good material there, some courses have almost all the material online.

jay_kyburz 7y ago
Yeah um, that's basically how Google works now. If you want to get into search results you have to buy ads. I'm sure the Universities will cover the liability costs of their professors. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
- gus_massa 7y ago
  A few months ago, I wanted a recipe with a nice photo of a "salty croissants with tallow" (medialuna de grasa, they are popular here in Argentina, sorry for the horrible translation). https://www.google.com/search?q=medialuna+de+grasa&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=medialuna+de+grasa&tbm=isch This looks nice: https://www.johaprato.com/receta/medialunas-de-grasa https://www.johaprato.com/receta/medialunas-de-grasa Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?oe&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=es&client=tw-ob&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.johaprato.com%2Freceta%2Fmedialunas-de-grasa https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?oe&um=1&ie=UTF-8&h... I don't get ads neither in the image search nor in the normal search. The results look quite organic. Most of them are from professional or semiprofesional cooking blogs.