Performative Conservatives Are Mad That DDG Wants to Downrank Disinformation (opens in new tab)

(techdirt.com)

6 pointspepsi4y ago5 comments

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This headline and article is needlessly inflammatory. It looks like the ones dropping DDG have a good point: DDG has betrayed one of its values of being unbiased. People switched away from Google because it was openly biased, now DDG is, too. Maybe I should switch away, too?

thfuran4y ago

What does unbiased even mean? Certainly the goal of a search engine isn't to provide a uniformly random sampling of their index for each and every query. The results must be expected to be biased in some way.

theandrewbailey4y ago

A search engine will rank results, yes, but that's not bias. But when someone who owns or built it changes it due to their political views, that's bias.

aerostable_slug4y ago

Many of the comments on the (terrible) article are truly depressing. I'd like to think people are smarter than this, but once again I'm proven wrong.

ohiovr4y ago

Who gets to be the ministry of truth?

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theandrewbailey4y ago

thfuran4y ago

theandrewbailey4y ago

A search engine will rank results, yes, but that's not bias. But when someone who owns or built it changes it due to their political views, that's bias.

aerostable_slug4y ago

Many of the comments on the (terrible) article are truly depressing. I'd like to think people are smarter than this, but once again I'm proven wrong.

ohiovr4y ago

Who gets to be the ministry of truth?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse