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If that's the case, why did they wait until now to block searching for him? What other controversial people have been blocked from search in the past?

fareesh 5y ago
Is it true that this is a recent change?
seoulmetro 5y ago
They block trends that they don't like. Curiosity and/or vulgarity is outlawed on most big tech sites.
- throwawaylinux 5y ago
  Neither of those things are outlawed, based on my (obviously anecdotal) experience of highly prominent people and posts on twitter and facebook over the past few years. What is outlawed is anything that damages the narrative that the company (and by extension, generally, the ruling class) wants to push. Very interesting curiosity, questions, facts are allowed and extremely common. So is horrible vulgarity, including bullying, lies, misinformation. When they are disallowed it is because they share the common property that they go against the narrative.
  - seoulmetro 5y ago
    The narrative they don't want to push is curiosity though. They don't want you learning/viewing anything they didn't push for you to learn. >So is horrible vulgarity Nope. Not even remotely. Even things that aren't vulgar to 99% and only vulgar to the 1% are considered vulgar and are outlawed.
    - throwawaylinux 5y ago
      > The narrative they don't want to push is curiosity though. They don't want you learning/viewing anything they didn't push for you to learn. Yes I suppose you are right really, they clearly discourage true open-minded curiosity. They allow a more mundane type of curiosity though, "Did <bad person> do a bad thing? Let's investigate..." totally allowed, for the correct values of bad person. > Nope. Not even remotely. Even things that aren't vulgar to 99% and only vulgar to the 1% are considered vulgar and are outlawed. Yes, entirely. I'm not sure what definition of vulgar you are working on, but they absolutely allow it when the target of it is a designated undesirable.

fareesh 5y ago

Is it true that this is a recent change?

seoulmetro 5y ago

They block trends that they don't like. Curiosity and/or vulgarity is outlawed on most big tech sites.

throwawaylinux 5y ago
Neither of those things are outlawed, based on my (obviously anecdotal) experience of highly prominent people and posts on twitter and facebook over the past few years. What is outlawed is anything that damages the narrative that the company (and by extension, generally, the ruling class) wants to push. Very interesting curiosity, questions, facts are allowed and extremely common. So is horrible vulgarity, including bullying, lies, misinformation. When they are disallowed it is because they share the common property that they go against the narrative.
- seoulmetro 5y ago
  The narrative they don't want to push is curiosity though. They don't want you learning/viewing anything they didn't push for you to learn. >So is horrible vulgarity Nope. Not even remotely. Even things that aren't vulgar to 99% and only vulgar to the 1% are considered vulgar and are outlawed.
  - throwawaylinux 5y ago
    > The narrative they don't want to push is curiosity though. They don't want you learning/viewing anything they didn't push for you to learn. Yes I suppose you are right really, they clearly discourage true open-minded curiosity. They allow a more mundane type of curiosity though, "Did <bad person> do a bad thing? Let's investigate..." totally allowed, for the correct values of bad person. > Nope. Not even remotely. Even things that aren't vulgar to 99% and only vulgar to the 1% are considered vulgar and are outlawed. Yes, entirely. I'm not sure what definition of vulgar you are working on, but they absolutely allow it when the target of it is a designated undesirable.