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They need to stop trying to so heavily curate what users are allowed to see in their searches. Since 2020, Google's attempts to operate as the internet's ideol
by peepeepoopoo14 3y ago
They need to stop trying to so heavily curate what users are allowed to see in their searches. Since 2020, Google's attempts to operate as the internet's ideological censor have had a noticeable negative impact on the quality of their search results.
- 1970-01-01 3y ago>Since 2020 Way before 2020. Circa 2008 it began, and it simply continues to the present. ChillingEffect's downfall in 2015 was a massive blow to the public. https://searchengineland.com/anti-censorship-database-chilling-effects-censors-removing-domain-search-212567 https://searchengineland.com/anti-censorship-database-chilli...
- peepeepoopoo14 3y agoThis is broader than DMCA takedown notices. For example, if you tried to look up the origins of covid, for a long time Google would try to shepherd you away from the lab leak hypothesis, since apparently that's dangerous wrongthink.