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by yehat 30 days ago
If a search engine starts censoring by whatever means, I'll not be using it, neither free or paid no matter how good it is (and by definition it can't be). Shills can provide a list of countries they don't want to see, hopefully some crooked search engine will satisfy their desire for censorship.
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No search engines are uncensored, not even Yandex. Partly because they have to exist in a country somewhere, and partly because really nobody wants to index CSAM.
Yes of course and if you think that's all that western search engines censor then you can keep using Google and Bing - but some of us actually do want the full picture.
Censorship of search results and deciding which companies to do business with are two completely separate topics.
In this case it isn't since there is no alternative that covers the censorship holes that Yandex does.
Then you have to stop using search engines.
Censorship? This isn't about free speech, there's a war on.
There's not just one war on, there are many. Should Kagi exclude all the results from American companies because of the actions of the US government in Iran?
Depends which side of the war you're on I guess? Or more to the point, whose money kagi wants to go after.
We are not talking about censoring anything here, just buying paid sources of index data.

I am unhappy with money flowing into Russia, for reasons that should be obvious (and I will not respond to whataboutism-style baiting here).