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I heard about "Proud Boys" a couple of years ago and went looking for more information to find out about their group so I could have an informed position on the
by Gareth321 5y ago
I heard about "Proud Boys" a couple of years ago and went looking for more information to find out about their group so I could have an informed position on the subject. Google removed their website.
I understand Google feeling compelled to remove extreme and illegal content, but this is not that. Google removed them for political and/or moral reasons. DuckDuckGo let me find the website and form my own opinions. Imagine how many other websites Google is withholding for political and moral reasons? How much of our general knowledge is now carefully shaped and curated by Google, because that's what they allow us to see?
I also moved to DuckDuckGo. A search engine which removes the things you're looking for "for your protection" is no search engine at all.
- ComradePhil 5y agoI don't see how you can blame the company when they are controlled by people who threaten them in various ways; threatening them with regulation with public disinformation about them using mass media being one of them. I have no doubt some of the top level people there are also involved in some Epsteinisque plot so that these people can have more control over them. They're more than big enough to warrant such a thing. In my opinion, they are merely complying to these pressures. Google is not being threatened to be regulated by Proud Boys nor is it likely that Proud Boys members have some dirt on their executives. So, they have no reason to remove Proud Boys from their search engine from their business perspective. Therefore the only reason can be that someone who has power over them tells them what to do.
- ekanes 5y agoNot holding them accountable simply because “but they have reasons” means no-one is ever accountable for anything.