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Because Google is the gatekeeper to what you see, and Google prioritises the boring and bland and CEO-friendly websites you see.

gonzo41 4y ago
Well replace google with Facebook and Apple. Google just wants you to click adds.
- jjoonathan 4y ago
  Advertisers are Google's real cu$tomer and they don't like to see their ads next to your experimental goatse art.
Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Correction: English-language Google is. — I find that very often the vaunted Anglo-Saxon moralism indeed only polices English content. I can find the most interesting and entertaining subjects searching in Japanese that do not show up when the same search is replicated in English, where it instead gives me something only barely related to my search that was simply popular enough. It's quite simple how Twitter is actually a bastion of free expression, so long it not be in English.
- O__________O 4y ago
  Every culture has their norms, including Japan. Japan may have some areas they are more flexible with, but they have just as many, if not more that they rigid about too. People are different, trying to make them the same would be just as boring.
  - Blikkentrekker 4y ago
    Perhaps Japan does, but I'm simply saying that Anglo-Saxon moral overlords do no care about enforcing Japan's sense of moral offence, only their own, or even when written in Japanese. People have long noted that one can get away with writing many things that would have one banned or removed on Reddit or Twitter, so long as one not do it in English but in another language. The same thing applies to Youtube's anti-swearword system that really only demonitizes based on English swearwords, not in any other language.
DamnInteresting 4y ago
Google also prioritizes what is new over what is original. This rewards the lazy borderline plagiarism copycats, resulting in perpetual soulless regurgitation of content.
lancesells 4y ago
Google isn't my gatekeeper. Stop using them and giving them power

gonzo41 4y ago

Well replace google with Facebook and Apple. Google just wants you to click adds.

jjoonathan 4y ago
Advertisers are Google's real cu$tomer and they don't like to see their ads next to your experimental goatse art.

Blikkentrekker 4y ago

Correction: English-language Google is. — I find that very often the vaunted Anglo-Saxon moralism indeed only polices English content. I can find the most interesting and entertaining subjects searching in Japanese that do not show up when the same search is replicated in English, where it instead gives me something only barely related to my search that was simply popular enough. It's quite simple how Twitter is actually a bastion of free expression, so long it not be in English.

O__________O 4y ago
Every culture has their norms, including Japan. Japan may have some areas they are more flexible with, but they have just as many, if not more that they rigid about too. People are different, trying to make them the same would be just as boring.
- Blikkentrekker 4y ago
  Perhaps Japan does, but I'm simply saying that Anglo-Saxon moral overlords do no care about enforcing Japan's sense of moral offence, only their own, or even when written in Japanese. People have long noted that one can get away with writing many things that would have one banned or removed on Reddit or Twitter, so long as one not do it in English but in another language. The same thing applies to Youtube's anti-swearword system that really only demonitizes based on English swearwords, not in any other language.

DamnInteresting 4y ago

Google also prioritizes what is new over what is original. This rewards the lazy borderline plagiarism copycats, resulting in perpetual soulless regurgitation of content.

lancesells 4y ago

Google isn't my gatekeeper. Stop using them and giving them power