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Will the browser, like the search engine, decide which political perspectives I should be exposed to?
by user3939382 5y ago
Will the browser, like the search engine, decide which political perspectives I should be exposed to?
- micromacrofoot 5y agocan you elaborate?
- fullshark 5y agomust be a reference to this https://www.news18.com/news/tech/many-duckduckgo-users-feel-its-response-to-russia-ukraine-war-is-birdbrained-4881776.html https://www.news18.com/news/tech/many-duckduckgo-users-feel-...
- micromacrofoot 5y agoah I see, so the preference is to allow propaganda to proliferate?
- fullshark 5y agoDon't want to speak for OP beyond that, but you can read the people critical of / in favor of the decision and try and understand their POV.
- jmull 5y agoA search engine should rank results based on quality. Misinformation should be ranked poorly. Just because some misinformation has a political bent doesn't mean it should be exempted. Surely only the purveyors of political misinformation could disagree with this.
- spiderice 5y ago> Surely only the purveyors of political misinformation could disagree with this. Ah, the preemptive "if you disagree with me you're spreading propaganda" tactic. Bold. The funny part is how much your comment reveals about your own bias. Most other people can see it, but you yourself cannot. The exact thing you're accusing others of.
- user3939382 5y agoI don’t need other people to decide for me what’s true. In fact I find the growing support for that frightening, given that the self-appointed arbiters of truth in corporate and social media have repeatedly, objectively been shown to be wrong, and from my personal perspective pushing a social and political agenda that is not my own. I’m a big boy, I’ll decide for myself what counts as “misinformation” thanks very much.
- jmull 5y agoThey aren't telling you what's true. They're just ranking search results. And a search engine has to rank search results -- not everything can be at the top. The question isn't whether DDG should rank search results, but what criteria they should use. I personally think the usefulness and credibility of the information are pretty good criteria, and do not think any exceptions should be made for political subjects.
- 4r4m 5y agoSo what difference with Google then? In this way they could rank marketing stuff in a first page and usefull at 10+, just because "sponsorship/current agenda".