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|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":1">{{News citation|title=Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo Will Censor Sites ‘Associated With Russian Disinformation’|url=https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/03/10/duckduckgo-information-censorship-russia-ukraine-war.html|newspaper=Vision Times}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Richard Medhurst]]|date=2022-03-14|title=Bye Bye Freedom: DuckDuckGo Censors Russian Search Results|url=https://youtu.be/ZXcyymRpE3g}}</ref> | |Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{News citation|title=Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo Will Censor Sites ‘Associated With Russian Disinformation’|url=https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/03/10/duckduckgo-information-censorship-russia-ukraine-war.html|newspaper=Vision Times}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Richard Medhurst]]|date=2022-03-14|title=Bye Bye Freedom: DuckDuckGo Censors Russian Search Results|url=https://youtu.be/ZXcyymRpE3g}}</ref> | ||
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|Google Search | |Google Search | ||
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|No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state | |No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
DuckDuckGo was founded in 2008 as a privacy-focused competitor to popular search engines such as Google Search. For a time it maintained a reputation helping to circumvent censorship, but following the [[2022 Russo-Ukranian conflict|2022 Russo-Ukraine conflict]], DuckDuckGo violated its | DuckDuckGo was founded in 2008 as a privacy-focused competitor to popular search engines such as Google Search. For a time it maintained a reputation helping to circumvent censorship, but following the [[2022 Russo-Ukranian conflict|2022 Russo-Ukraine conflict]], DuckDuckGo violated its own neutrality and began censoring Russian news outlets.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Tom Parker|date=2022-03-11|title=DuckDuckGo Announces Mass Censorship of 'Russian Disinformation'|url=https://www.eutimes.net/2022/03/duckduckgo-announces-mass-censorship-of-russian-disinformation/}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> | ||
In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Tom Parker|title=Brave Search and Presearch say they don’t censor search results|url=https://reclaimthenet.org/brave-search-presearch-not-censor/|newspaper=Reclaim The Net}}</ref> | In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Tom Parker|title=Brave Search and Presearch say they don’t censor search results|url=https://reclaimthenet.org/brave-search-presearch-not-censor/|newspaper=Reclaim The Net}}</ref> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||