• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, not switching to DDG after seeing them do absolutely nothing about the whole tank man thing. Someone at Microsoft decided to just ban the famous tank man image from Bing image search, and all the other search engines using their API also lost all of those results.

    I was hoping DDG would at least out up some statement, maybe announce considering other image search options, but nothing ever happened.

    If they can’t even take a stand against Microsoft pleasing the CCP by censoring one of the most iconic photographs in modern history, what reason do I have to trust their other results.

    There aren’t any other image search options out there either. You can pick between Google, Bing, and Yandex. Maybe Baidu if you’re really into Chinese propaganda. Brave also claims to have their own image search, but that’s a very small company and they’ve been proven desperate and unreliable in the past.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve just tried to search for ‘tank man’ and also ‘tiananmen square’ with DuckDuckGo’s image search, and both of them returned the picture we all know, that dictator Winnie the Poop doesn’t wanna see…

      • Bing has corrected the issue since. I remember typing the keywords into Bing periodically and slowly the page filled back up with the pictures from news articles talking about how Bing and DDG censored the terms.

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      1 year ago

      Seriously? It’s a search tool. Does absolutely every piece of software you use have to be 100% aligned to your world view? This is getting weird.

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        “I expect the services I use not to hide famous photographs associated with a well-documented massacre on the anniversary of said massacre” is quite reasonable, I find.

        This isn’t a “world view” issue. Everyone (well, except for the people subjected to Chinese censorship, I suppose) knows about the massacre.

        Hell, even if this was a “world view” issue, an image search feature not being able to find one of the most famous images in history still reflects poorly on the state of said service.

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          But you didn’t say you expect them to show you the foto. You said you wanted them to issue a statement or something. So the issue was not lack of functionality but not taking a stance. Now that I pointed out how silly it is you’re changing it to “it’s a poor service”. Nice…

          • Yes, I expected a statement in the form of “Apologies, we didn’t mean to censor this photograph, here’s how we’re going to prevent this in the future”. Microsoft explained the problem at the very least (blaming it on “human error” of course).

            If DDG can’t be bothered to put out a statement, I don’t trust their morals.