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Re:Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search res... by lisasays on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:10PM (#35735675)
It pretty much was just about fake news and trash results, actually. RT really is pure garbage, by its very intent and purpose.

I do agree that blocking RT outright was overreach and somewhat silly. However, I imagine it comes more from a gut feeling of disgust and "this is bullshit" then than some ultraelitist, "gotta protect the unwashed masses from harmful ideas that may bring the global order into question" motive that people in this thread seem to want DDG to have.

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Re:Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search res... by mardifoufs on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:45PM (#35736297)
Yes, but they could've just blacklisted or downranked it based on already existing rules about fake news. But they instead went ahead and basically created a rule for Russian content specifically.

I don't even doubt DDGs intentions, but that's the thing... in most cases, people who want to suppress or filter out speech/news/etc usually have good intentions because as you said they genuinely think it is harmful content. That's the whole issue! And it's why it's usually such a thorny debate.

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