After DDG decided they would censor material they considered misinformation from Russia I went out search engine shopping and I'm using brave search. I value transparency and fairness and can make my own mind about things (I remember when being against the Iraq or Lybia wars made you a terrorist sympsthizer).
Do you have any stance there? (I'm not saying you should have one or agree with mine, just curious. Every search engine might have its time and place).
In general I'm not a big fan of censorship. I think it's ultimately counterproductive. It sends the message that the "truth" needs to be protected from independent scrutiny, effectively undermining the credibility of the institutions, while enabling crackpots to develop a persecution narrative.
That said I do block some sites, mostly nazi stuff if it's designed in such a way that it crops up in regular searches. It's a fairly small number of sites though.
> while enabling crackpots to develop a persecution narrative.
I see this sentiment a lot lately and it seems weird to me that since narratives don’t need to have an inch a truth to be constructed. Narratives can be fabricated from made up atoms if need be . If crackpots wants to believe they’re being prosecuted , they’ll do it anyway. The ammunition you fear you’ll give them is one they already possess if they’re already too far gone.
Yeah, I didn't start annotating them until recently though, and like 39700 out of 40000 the domains are blacklisted because of spam. Probably a few false positives in there though but it's 40k domains :-/
You can check if a site is blacklisted using a site:-search like
Do you have any stance there? (I'm not saying you should have one or agree with mine, just curious. Every search engine might have its time and place).