Putting known-bad information sources further down the result list is hardly silencing the competition, in fact it's likely making the results a lot better for the majority of users.
> What if I'm genuinely curious as to how the Russian media is presenting this war?
Then I imagine you can search for that and find it just fine.
> They must have access to this perfect knowledge if they are fit to decide which news sources are "correct"!
Then search rankings are all wrong, from the very concept of such things upwards, because they all seek to rank information quality in various ways, and you should never use them. Any of them.
Hyperbole much?
Putting known-bad information sources further down the result list is hardly silencing the competition, in fact it's likely making the results a lot better for the majority of users.
> What if I'm genuinely curious as to how the Russian media is presenting this war?
Then I imagine you can search for that and find it just fine.
> They must have access to this perfect knowledge if they are fit to decide which news sources are "correct"!
Then search rankings are all wrong, from the very concept of such things upwards, because they all seek to rank information quality in various ways, and you should never use them. Any of them.
Honestly these reactions are ridiculous.