Any Search Engine that doesn't censored "Election fraud" suggestion search term?

[Ayespy]

@guigirl Interesting. What search engine (or search aggregator) is that?

Edit: I think I see. Searx.

[Ayespy]

@guigirl Yeah. Too bad it's really not available for Windows. Mebbe DogPile would do something similar.

[sjudenim]

@guigirl

Search engines behave differently based on your location

[Ayespy]

@guigirl As I thought, Dogpile suggests "electoral fraud" as the first suggestion if you type electoral fr. If you search electoral fraud on dogpile, it's pages of nothing but electoral fraud results, including current suspicions, suggestions and claims of it.

[Ayespy]

@guigirl does it have a search homepage? All I could find was reams of crap about how to compile it for Linux.

[Ayespy]

@guigirl OK, I see now. There are a ton of public nodes, designed and maintained by a plethora of different people, some for the US.

https://searx.ninja renders somewhat similar results to DogPile but, frankly, a LOT more woo-woo "evidence of fraud" crap that, when you in fact read it, does not actually contain any such evidence.

[Eggcorn]

@Ayespy said in Any Search Engine that doesn't censored "Election fraud" suggestion search term?:

does it have a search homepage?

Yes. Searx has lots of domain names. One of them is searx.xyz, but you can find a list of Searx domain names at searx.space.

[Ayespy]

@guigirl "Best" being a subjective and relative term.

[Ayespy]

@Eggcorn Yeah, found it.

[Ayespy]

@guigirl When I get some time...

[Ayespy]

@guigirl Of course. Electoral fr -> electoral fraud -> reams and reams of crap about electoral fraud or supposed electoral fraud - all, btw, harvested from major search engines.

[sjudenim]

@guigirl

The whole point of the thread was that many search providers are performing a soft censorship. As you can clearly see from my screenshot, my results differed from yours. The same holds true for other providers. It's not a question of yielding results but that certain results are not readily available.

[Ayespy]

Slightly OT, but lately there have been several offerings of alternative, "uncensored," "free speech" social media sites to escape evil Youtube, facebook, and Twitter to something that does not limit one's expression.

I have visited each of these. So far, every one is a toxic soup of right-wing conspiracy theory and hating on (and even recommending violence toward) "liberals" (aka, socialists, commies, fascists, baby-killers, deep state, democraps, etc.). If this is the crap the "censors" have been protecting us from, I can't be sure I'm entirely upset by that.

[sjudenim]

@Ayespy

And that differs from the bile on the mainstream platforms that have a clear bias?

Free speech isn't there to protect just the things you find agreeable. It's there for all the ugly stuff too and in a free country, we are free to ignore it.

[sjudenim]

@guigirl

That's some extrapolation you've made there. If you are going to quote me, do not take it out of context just so you can get up on your soap box and puff up your chest with faux activism. We are talking about tech censorship, in the Tech forum.

[purgat0ri]

Bill Gates must have been too busy masterminding the corona-hoax to catch this one:

[sjudenim]

@purgat0ri

[Ayespy]

@sjudenim the term in English is "electoral" fraud.

[Ayespy]

@sjudenim You are also free to "ignore" the smell of the slop and manure when you walk through a pig farm. But it still clogs your nostrils and brings an involuntary retch reflex to your throat. The internet has enough pig farms. There is actually a sane and sober reason why, in this forum for instance, we have a Code of Conduct. It's to avoid toxicity from creeping in and making the place unwelcome to visit, thus effectively shutting it down to people of good will. Offenders against the code always complain their "free speech" is being violated, that they are being "censored," and that they have a "right" to offend. They say if people don't like what they write, then they don't have to read it. Turns out it doesn't work that way. There is value to promoting and protecting sanity and peace of mind.

[sjudenim]

@Ayespy

Check the thread title, that's the question being asked