It would be impossible to filter out most propaganda - at least not the effective kind. Using the word propaganda makes these measures sound unjustified. It's better to call it what it is: deranking lies from the top search results.
What about propaganda? Is VOA propaganda? Are white house press releases propaganda? Every news service has a bias, some stronger than others. There is no clear line as to where propaganda ends allowable information begins.
Judges make decisions about ambiguous cases all the time. Rarely are things absolute in life.
And lose important emails. I don't mind my emails being tagged as "probable spam", but I should be the one to actually delete them (unless it's unbelievably low quality spam).
> There is no such thing as political-neutral information.
No, hence wanting multiple sources.
> And if you believe that you alone, as an individual, have all the resources to efficiently filter out political manipulation in the information you receive then you're probably very close to the QAnon bunch.
I don't want somebody to make that decision for me. How do we know DuckDuckGo have the resources? How do we know they don't 'rank' suggestions based on other political events?
Obviously we have different opinions about exactly what we want from DuckDuckGo, that's okay. I'm not against DuckDuckGo adding a tag or rating to indicate what they believe the trustworthiness of the source to be - I would even appreciate if they distinguish between cnn.com and cmm.com (fake example to make the point).
If I search on youtube, I will see the usual selection. BBC, Guardian, France24, DW, CNN
None will show his speech. Just images of him, while a journalist is rambling about how Western politicians reacted.
I don't understand the mental gymnastics that sees filtering out propaganda as "biased".
I see it actually as the opposite, as removing an intentional bias, as removing an intentional manipulation by the propaganda agent himself.
Compare to spam-filtering in your email: when you remove the noise, you get a better signal/noise ratio. When you hide information under a pile of noise you are actually "biasing".
There is no such thing as political-neutral information.
And if you believe that you alone, as an individual, have all the resources to efficiently filter out political manipulation in the information you receive then you're probably very close to the QAnon bunch.