re: #390 erik_t

Search engines are not common carriers. Google’s entire purpose in life is resorting and rejiggering the search results according to their tailoring algorithms. They push some things up, and they push other things down.

That’s literally why they exist.

And when they start to simply rabbit hole events? They may rijigger but usually do not remove? The Tienanmen Square example above? How about in the UK where the Torries are trying to scrub every speech given for the past decade from existence - if they were in power they could just simply issue a law to make the search engines do this.

Honest question - How do you use the current internet without a search provider? At one point a phone line was a luxury and not worthy of any protection - how has the internet not gone from ‘nice to have’ to ‘nearly necessary’?