• TiffyBelle@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I mean, the article you linked is literally complaining that bullshit sites peddling conspiracies about the moon landing being faked or school shootings being faked are being downranked.

      Misinformation being downranked seems to be a major plus to me. 🤷‍♀️

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        Misinformation being downranked seems to be a major plus to me. 🤷‍♀️

        +1 Yes!

        I don’t understand why people want to see misinformation in their search honestly. There’s a lot of this “oh no its ‘censoring’ my results so its bad” thinking in some parts of the privacy community and its not healthy IMO.

        I do that agree that there is a time and a place for censorship though, in some instances it can potentially overstretch what most consider to be fair, but with most things you can’t please everyone. Personally as long as I get 🚢🏴‍☠️🧲 in my search results I’m happy.

        If all search was uncensored, and people were a button click away from seeing NSFL (note: not NSFW) stuff all the time, the internet would be a very different place… and various countries would have likely forgone it in favor of their own national intranet (such as NK or PRC kinda have)