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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by otherotherchris on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:58AM (#30084478)
Not bias, deliberate disappearance of specific categories of ideas. Independent blogs and forums not owned by large silicon valley companies have disappeared, for example. So have all discussions of current events, except for "mainstream" news publications.

Whether this is because of a short term greed motivation to maximize adsense yield or a larger conspiracy of global information control isn't clear yet. But it amounts to the same in practice.

Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by wadadadad on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:08AM (#30087220)
Can you give examples of search queries, and blogs and forums that you would expect to show up from those queries?
Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by z80x86 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:50PM (#30090745)
Here’s an example on Google search:

‘site:4chan.org wuhan’ returns no results ‘site:4chan.org wuhan institute of virology’ returns 1,710 results