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Im afraid this is potentially dangerously political. Are you only going to filter obvious spam and sites that republish other’s content, or are you going to bl

Im afraid this is potentially dangerously political. Are you only going to filter obvious spam and sites that republish other’s content, or are you going to block sites that are “harmful” or disseminate “disinformation”? Who will get to decide which media bubble I’m in?

sharikous 5y ago
It can be made configurable - an option for github clones, another for SO clones, etc..., the folks who want to filter "harmful" content will add their category
- tagoregrtst 5y ago
  Who sets the default 90% of people won’t touch? Someone, give me the late 90’s cesspool of un-curated internet back! Everything is so… trite now.
beart 5y ago
This is a browser extension that you have to explicitly install and configure. You get to decide which media bubble you are in (setting aside the fact that google may or may not curate their search results.)
Closi 5y ago
> Im afraid this is potentially dangerously political. It only took 7 days for that other search engine project on HN last week (Mwmbl) to add hard-coded weights for certain news websites, so it does show how careful you have to be with this stuff. https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/a41088ca9ad7fdcac952a3be84c086316d9e77fa/mwmbl/tinysearchengine/hn_top_domains_filtered.py#L1 https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/a41088ca9ad7fdcac952a3be...
- schleck8 5y ago
  What's the issue with that? Doesn't Google do this too, based on ssl availability for instance?
  - Closi 5y ago
    Well Google testified against having hardcoded weights for news websites in congress. And the issue is because it creates filter bubbles and introduces bias into how information is discovered.
approxim8ion 5y ago
That's hilarious. "dangerously political", as if search ranking is not already political. > Who will get to decide which media bubble I’m in? Whoever you rely on for your consumption needs. Your search engines, content aggregators, and news sites already do. None of us have much agency online and pretending like we are operating objectively and rationally is delusional.
- tagoregrtst 5y ago
  I dont pretend. I know what a cesspool of petty control the internet is. I dont want it to get worse though

sharikous 5y ago

It can be made configurable - an option for github clones, another for SO clones, etc..., the folks who want to filter "harmful" content will add their category

tagoregrtst 5y ago
Who sets the default 90% of people won’t touch? Someone, give me the late 90’s cesspool of un-curated internet back! Everything is so… trite now.

beart 5y ago

This is a browser extension that you have to explicitly install and configure. You get to decide which media bubble you are in (setting aside the fact that google may or may not curate their search results.)

Closi 5y ago

> Im afraid this is potentially dangerously political. It only took 7 days for that other search engine project on HN last week (Mwmbl) to add hard-coded weights for certain news websites, so it does show how careful you have to be with this stuff. https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/a41088ca9ad7fdcac952a3be84c086316d9e77fa/mwmbl/tinysearchengine/hn_top_domains_filtered.py#L1 https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/a41088ca9ad7fdcac952a3be...

schleck8 5y ago
What's the issue with that? Doesn't Google do this too, based on ssl availability for instance?
- Closi 5y ago
  Well Google testified against having hardcoded weights for news websites in congress. And the issue is because it creates filter bubbles and introduces bias into how information is discovered.

approxim8ion 5y ago

That's hilarious. "dangerously political", as if search ranking is not already political. > Who will get to decide which media bubble I’m in? Whoever you rely on for your consumption needs. Your search engines, content aggregators, and news sites already do. None of us have much agency online and pretending like we are operating objectively and rationally is delusional.

tagoregrtst 5y ago
I dont pretend. I know what a cesspool of petty control the internet is. I dont want it to get worse though