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Ask HN: Subtracting off unwanted porn results is not allowed anywhere – why?
Has anybody else noticed you cannot use the subtraction operator on any porn sites?
This strikes me as needing explanation. It is like a world for which every choice exists - except the choice to opt out.
There are people who want all the porn - there are people who want no porn - but between a bigger group has some fetishes and are disgusted by others. Why then does the standard negation operator not work on any mainstream porn channel?
I could make some guesses - but you have to admit this is a deliberate choice by the porn search engines - I know everybody on HN knows this is not a technical issue - so I'm asking if this is a known business decision or a known social intervention.