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RE: We Need to Talk About Search

in #dtube5 years ago

That sounded really interesting to me, so I went there. When you do, you need to sign in or create an account. You can't use it, or even kick the tires, anonymously.

That's not meeting my needs. IMHO, the best thing about the internet is that people can interact, blow whistles, and speak forthrightly pseudonymously. A world in which we cannot be unidentified is a world in which we are utterly subject to institutional controls. It is a bit counterintuitive to folks that don't realize how institutions cooperate to control people, but it's not a new corral into which we are being herded.

Institutional racism provides an analogy, because race wasn't something that could be concealed when interacting with institutions 50 years ago. When you went into a bank to be denied a loan, or a sandwich shop to be told to go eat somewhere that accepts your kind, you couldn't larp as whitey. Today, if you vote for Trump, or support open borders, you can be unconnected to that aspect of your identity when shopping on Amazon, and it isn't the reason you are disconnected by your ISP, or charged higher prices for shipping.

Being unable to be anonymous is being subjected to the opinions of institutions, and enables the equivalent of institutional racism. Until Presearch allows anonymity, I won't be a user.

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Actually that's for the reward part, all searches are anonymous.

I can't use it without signing up.

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