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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by csande17 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:04PM (#30635630)
> By default, the client already expects the server to fulfill a gatekeeping role in filtering (censoring!) spam.

This is how a lot of email clients currently work, but it is not a fundamental law of the universe. Back in the day, you could run programs on your computer that would filter spam automatically based on criteria and examples you specified. For example, see https://daringfireball.net/2003/09/interview_michael_tsai

The fact that people would pay money for such a program highlights the difference between spam filtering and censorship: spam filtering hides things that I don't want to see, while censorship hides things that other people don't want me to see.

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by eyelidlessness on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:32PM (#30636212)
And this is a good reason that cries of censorship on tech platforms often sound naive. Most of us don’t want to be served known disinformation.
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