Posted on 05/27/2024 3:55:09 PM PDT by CFW
You have surely heard that your search results on Google (with 92 percent share of the search market) reflect not your curiosities and needs but someone or something else’s views on what you need to know. That’s hardly a secret.
And on Facebook, you are likely inundated by links to official sources to correct any errors you might carry in your head, as well as links to corrections to posts as made by any number of fact-checking organizations.
You have likely also heard of YouTube videos being taken down, apps deleted from stores, and accounts being canceled across a variety of platforms.
You might have even adjusted your behavior in light of all of this. It is part of the new culture of Internet engagement. The line you cannot cross is invisible. You are like a dog with an electric shock collar. You have to figure it out on your own, which means exercising caution when you post, pulling back on hard claims that might shock, paying attention to media culture to discern what is sayable and what is not, and generally trying to avoid controversy as best you can in order to earn the privilege of not being canceled.
Despite all the revelations regarding the Censorship Industrial Complex, and the wide involvement of government in these efforts, plus the resulting lawsuits that claim that this is all censorship, the walls are clearly closing in further by the day.
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No one needs to censor you at that point. You censor yourself.
It was not always this way. It was not even supposed to be this way.
(Excerpt) Read more at brownstone.org ...
I never search for stuff like that. There are good books to read instead.
You are correct
Google search didn’t seem to bad 10-15 years ago.
15 to 20.
Twisted
Since I have not used Google in at least a decade I haven’t noticed it getting worse.
Youtube I stopped using about two years ago. I stopped because I could see it getting worse.
Facebook I still use because I use it to stay in touch with my family that is addicted to the monster.
Thought DDG relied on Google’s search infrastructure.
Years ago, there was another company that attempted to start its own data infrastructure, but eventually it shut down given the inability to compete.
Yandex has the most amazingly beautiful images for their search categories. They find the best of the best photographs.
Bkmk
I usually use a Microsoft PC and the Bing searches seem to be of lower quality than in the past. I now repeatedly have to dig further down.
DuckDuckGo appears to focus more on privacy than the quality of search results.
My Microsoft PC disconnects me from my cell phone Internet about 20 times a day.
My Chromebook did the same.
>Anyone know of a less biased search engine than google (or the ones that mostly use it behind the scenes)?
yandex.com
The same if you are looking to buy something. The first search result is ALWAYS Commiezon. They used to have a little tab saying that Commiezon paid them to put their ads first but now they do not even bother. Second ad is always Walmart.
The Democrat party, worldwide communist conspiracy and Disney routinely murder straight children to make their soy latte products.
My internet searches for girls in movies, nudes, still brings me authenic images
It’s all good
It’s why they’re so heavily invested in AI - to use as a more “efficient” censoring tool....
Bing
I’m guessing that Elon Musk may be thinking of creating a “non politically correct “ search engine at some point
There would be a market for it
The modern era Brownshirts of the internet...
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