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> It sounds like you're advocating for pushing censorship responsibility to the user.

It is really irresponsible to be phrasing censorship as a "responsibility". Censorship is a tool of the weak and simple-minded so that they can maintain the illusions of a shared reality promulgated by whoever is in charge. The only responsibility should be towards the free and unadulterated flow of information, and yes, it is the individual's responsibility to make sense of that in a civilized fashion.

My only exception to this rule is for things that are irrelevant to seeker's intent to acquire more information, advertising falls into this bucket.



"My only exception is things I don't like"

How is blocking spam and advertisement materially different than blocking a foreign actor's propaganda?


Blocking spam is done by the consumer of information, blocking a foreign (and domestic) actor's propaganda is done by the entity with the power of dissemination of information.

You don't see Google censoring ads much.


> You don't see Google censoring ads much.

There's nothing in their business they censor more.


In search results?


Google spends most of their time blocking ads. "Spam" is ads.


That is an extremely uncharitable reading of my words




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