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I don't believe that's a fair point. Google takes down requests if the us gov asks them to, or Bing. Baidu can only show Chinese gov approved messages. They ar
by langsoul-com 4y ago
I don't believe that's a fair point. Google takes down requests if the us gov asks them to, or Bing. Baidu can only show Chinese gov approved messages.
They are all at the mercy of the controlling government.
- watwut 4y agoThat is not fair analogy in the slightest.
- Pr0Ger 4y agoYes, all of them comply to local laws. But point is Yandex repeatedly denied all accusation of working with government by saying "No, we didn't filter news, it's our algorithms decided this topic from top1 twitter trend is not important at all" Turns out their "algorithms" was "where source in state_approved_media"
- bobuk 4y agoJust for clarification: it's illegal to build news aggregator in Russia if you use any sources that is not certified by Russian government. So technically you're right, "source is state_approved_media", and pretty the same for all Russian news aggregation services.
- MomoXenosaga 4y agoFascinating, we are back in the USSR. Why does Putin think it will work this time?