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Censorship DuckduckGO down rank russian "disinformation" site

Cursed

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just idc about the conflict , i'm not for russian , i hate Poutine but i'm disappointed with the duckduckgo ad :

https://nitter.snopyta.org/yegg/status/1501716484761997318#m

https://nitter.snopyta.org/yegg/status/1501717193855283201#m

duckduckgo want censor russian site like google did with down-rank systeme and make a new modules like google : "we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search " this for fight against "disinformation" and of course 0 definition of what is disinformation.

and also they stop use yandex ( now is "a pause" but how the conflict go is probably forever)

just for be clear my problem isn't the censorship of russian site but for me it is a first step of duckduckgo censorship and like google we saw what happend today with google research.
 
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Jahy

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Pretty fucking cringe if you ask me. Why does it always seem this sort of evil behavior is inevitable for any tech service that gets too big, regardless of their initially "good" intentions? The hypocrisy of so many services seemingly in support of privacy and freedom of speech (Mozilla, EFF, etc.) turning around and promoting and enforcing double standards on what they deem as problematic and justifying censorship with their mental gymnastics never ceases to disappoint me.

DuckDuckGo trying to be more and more like Google just screams red flags; you should not want to emulate the enemy, which is funny because they'll emulate all of Google's worst aspects but not their superior search results. I think it's time to jump ship for anyone who hasn't already. I advise people consider alternatives as listed in this thread, and I will be adding a warning against using DuckDuckGo to it as well after posting this.

I was also informed that Qwant has had to do something similar as far as censorship goes, mostly citing European sanctions as the cause though not without backing it up with their own politicial statement, so it's hard to believe how much they were pushed to do so versus how much they personally agreed with such changes.

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These people do not want you to decide for yourself. You cannot gather a fully informed opinion without taking into consideration the perspectives of both sides. Given their way, you will only see what they want you to see, and that requires a lot of trust from you as the end user to place on their behalf. If there's anything I've learned viewing the tech sector over the last few years, you shouldn't trust these "people" as far as you could throw them.

To comment on your frequent self-defenses in your post, I truly lament how it's made so difficult these days to criticize such objectively awful decisions made by tech corpos such as what has happened here without inevitably getting maligned in some form. The case with the war in Ukraine is precisely the sort of opportunity these scumbags love and capitalize upon to justify such ridiculous changes. It follows the same sort of faulty, pathos-based "think of the children" nonsense that governments frequently use to justify restricting individual freedoms. You can be against the invasion of Ukraine and still believe targeted censorship is wrong and very much a slippery slope rife with not just the potential for but expectation of abuse.
 
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Cursed

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avoid anything be french trust me. they have 0 respect about data collect. a example:

"For its part, French law required telecommunications operators in France to keep the metadata of internet and telephone connections (location, date, duration, etc.) for one year, in order to be able to make them available to investigation services on request of a magistrate or, in matters of intelligence, with the authorization of the Prime Minister."
"https://www.vie-publique.fr/en-bref...des-donnees-internet-conforme-au-droit-de-lue" if you want more about the context : the eu court attack french in 2020 for no respect the EU law of data collect, french gov say is for the terrorism so EU say : ok you can still keep data :gura-pain:
soon this law will probably be break by EU but is like 5 years since this law was adopt.

and for my self-defenses is for avoid the " you are a russian agent".
 
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