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Should DDG show flat earth websites on basic searches about the earth?

That’s not about silencing the competition that’s about doing the basic functions you’re looking for in a search engine. Delisting would be another story as people may legitimately want to find flat earth content, but this isn’t delisting the content is still there you just need to specifically look for it.



> Should DDG show flat earth websites on basic searches about the earth?

It should if that's what their unbiased parameters bubble up. What's bs is hardcoded censorship/downranking of searches based on (geo)political ideology of the ddg owners.


If their unbiased parameters give useless spam, users would expect the parameters to change.


Agreed, but I feel that is unlikely to be connected to a particular political ideology.


Since flat earth theories never posed any relevant problem, this is just a straw man to justify propaganda mechanisms.


Flat earth, anti vax groups, and national national governments running disinformation campaigns are all doing the exact same thing.




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