The federal government argues Google has smothered competition by paying companies such as Apple and Verizon to lock in its search engine as the default.
“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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.