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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by tomc1985 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:57PM (#30633761)
> It sounds like you're advocating for pushing censorship responsibility to the user.

It is really irresponsible to be phrasing censorship as a "responsibility". Censorship is a tool of the weak and simple-minded so that they can maintain the illusions of a shared reality promulgated by whoever is in charge. The only responsibility should be towards the free and unadulterated flow of information, and yes, it is the individual's responsibility to make sense of that in a civilized fashion.

My only exception to this rule is for things that are irrelevant to seeker's intent to acquire more information, advertising falls into this bucket.

Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by santoshalper on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:32PM (#30634094)
"My only exception is things I don't like"

How is blocking spam and advertisement materially different than blocking a foreign actor's propaganda?

Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by Clubber on Thursday March 10, 2022 @07:48PM (#30634766)
Blocking spam is done by the consumer of information, blocking a foreign (and domestic) actor's propaganda is done by the entity with the power of dissemination of information.

You don't see Google censoring ads much.

Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by tomnipotent on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:19PM (#30635375)
> You don't see Google censoring ads much.

There's nothing in their business they censor more.

Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by Clubber on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:11AM (#30640824)
In search results?
Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by rdw on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:19PM (#30635005)
Google spends most of their time blocking ads. "Spam" is ads.
Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by tomc1985 on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:56AM (#30640659)
That is an extremely uncharitable reading of my words