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This will continue the trend for more censorship in search.
by chaostheory 3y ago
This will continue the trend for more censorship in search.
- barbazoo 3y agoHow will this add to "censorship"?
- l33t7332273 3y agoGoogle and others will likely prefer to take a hardline stance on what is “self evidently” defamatory, and when you combine heavy handedness with automation, you will almost surely be censoring legal content.
- AdrianB1 3y agoSimilar to that quote, it is self-evident. If you can be punished for stuff that you index (as a search engine), you will start to self-censor to avoid punishment.
- kedean 3y agoCensorship is not and cannot be a blanket defense for companies to get away with not moderating their content, and for Google this information is content. Google in particular left behind the excuse of "we just serve what's already available" when they started weighting results for political and commercial gain and labelling things as factual. They clearly do not act as a dumb pipe for information gathering. IMI, as soon as they started exercising editorial privilege on data they serve, they became responsible for this kind of thing. Uncensored search results can only come from an engine that isn't censoring for their own benefit anyway.