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Performative Conservatives Are Mad That DDG Wants to Downrank Disinformation

• theandrewbailey 5y ago
  This headline and article is needlessly inflammatory. It looks like the ones dropping DDG have a good point: DDG has betrayed one of its values of being unbiased. People switched away from Google because it was openly biased, now DDG is, too. Maybe I should switch away, too?
  • thfuran 5y ago
    What does unbiased even mean? Certainly the goal of a search engine isn't to provide a uniformly random sampling of their index for each and every query. The results must be expected to be biased in some way.
    • theandrewbailey 5y ago
      A search engine will rank results, yes, but that's not bias. But when someone who owns or built it changes it due to their political views, that's bias.
• aerostable_slug 5y ago
  Many of the comments on the (terrible) article are truly depressing. I'd like to think people are smarter than this, but once again I'm proven wrong.
• ohiovr 5y ago
  Who gets to be the ministry of truth?