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EU Search engine incoming: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (blog.ecosia.org)

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For the people who have not yet decided on a search engine. The most EU way you can go is Ecosia or Qwant as they are building their own search index.

Ecosia is my personal pick as its also aimed at planting trees and they have quite a good browser alongside it.

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[–] JasSmith 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

No I mean actual censorship. For example, RT and Sputnik. They have also banned PressTV and CGTN. They suspended broadcast licenses for EADaily / Eurasia Daily, Fondsk, Lenta, NewsFront, RuBaltic, SouthFront, Strategic Culture Foundation, and Krasnaya Zvezda / Tvzvezda. All of these sites would be explicitly banned from any EU based search engine.

Note that I am not giving American tech companies a free pass here. Google is one of the worst.

Also note that "censorship" doesn't exclusively refer to government censorship. That is an American-centric perspective using the Constitution as the lens. Censorship is often conducted by individuals and organisations. In this case I am referring to the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Pretty much all of those """news""" sources have been witnessed to spread complete fabrications and fake news, and were used to undermine democracy on this continent, much like how Fox News and the likes are actively undermining democracy across the pond by spreading lies as "opinion pieces".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

@JasSmith Well there is a whole discussion to be had about banning media who is spouting lie after lie after lie and are propaganda machines for the respective regimes.

But before you just assume censorship... try it yourself. I can open rt.com, tass etc and search for them.

Sometimes the search result are all nerfed to hell, but they are there.

And some pages (Zwezda) seem to have blocked access from my country at least, but that's on their site & RT does not have a valid certificate...