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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? by missedthecue on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:25AM (#30662030)
Once you open the door, where does it stop? I think that's the question, not whether Russian propaganda is propaganda or not.
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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:29PM (#30662804)
The same can be said of spam filtering in email. Who decides what is spam? I actually want a search engine to not show me garbage results, and propaganda is garbage results.
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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? by missedthecue on Sunday March 13, 2022 @02:35PM (#30664349)
Spam I feel has a very clear definition. Unsolicited emails from accounts and websites you don't know.

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.

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