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> In case someone hasn't noticed, there is a war going on in Europe. That is a circumstance where some of these cases apply. There's a saying: "Truth is the fi
by choward 5y ago
> In case someone hasn't noticed, there is a war going on in Europe. That is a circumstance where some of these cases apply.
There's a saying: "Truth is the first casualty in war." The last thing I want during a war is censorship. Why should I magically start trusting the government and media now?
> If this sounds just like "legalese" to you consider this: a newspaper has the right to select and editorialize the news it publishes, a bookseller has the right to choose what books to sell, a movie theatre or a movie producer also has rights to choose what to exhibit or produce. The same principle applies to what dang does here at HN.
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> So why shouldn't DDG have the right to choose what search results to display?
DuckDuckGo isn't a publisher. They are a search engine. And nobody is claiming that they don't have the right to do what they are doing. But by doing so they are just like the search engines everyone is trying to escape from. Sure, you might get privacy but who cares if the results are manipulated?
- colinmhayes 5y ago> They are a search engine. Exactly. people go to search engines looking for information about things. If the search engine returns lies it's completely failed. > who cares if the results are manipulated? Not sure if you've noticed, but there's an entire industry built around manipulating search engine results. If the search engines don't fight back the only thing that will be left is corporate and government bullshit.
- eric_cc 5y ago> If the search engine returns lies it's completely failed. How does a search engine know what is true?
- kweingar 5y ago> If the search engine returns lies it's completely failed If I search for Time Cube, should a search engine refuse to show me a link to its webpage?
- DangitBobby 5y agoMaybe.
- DangitBobby 5y agoTruth is also a casualty when all truth is drowned out by a deluge of lies and nonsense. It's not as simple as you wish. You want to live in a trustless society where there needs be no curation of truth, but it's simply not practical, and it never has been.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoAnd once again you completely ignore the problem of who gets to decide what it means to be biased or truthful? I'm sure you think you're biases are implicitly good, but there's no way in hell I would ever let you control the information that would be filtered on my screen given your ideological views
- DangitBobby 5y agoI'm not ignoring it, I'm just not going to pretend the actual solution is "no one decides" because that's nonsense. Hard problems don't go away because you don't like them. Not censoring misinformation isn't going to work, period. Some trust is required for society to operate at its current scale.