But guess what the governments turn it into political entity when they are not supervised. This move is good. Russia is abusing the hell out of internet freedom and they need to be stopped
@@TheGoQu russia's propaganda is widespread sure. but if the very way in which you find content online is actively maniuplating its own results for a political agenda, you truly have no idea if you're seeing an accurate reflection of what people are talking about. the russian govt has added one layer of obfuscation, DDG has done nothing but add yet another. the internet is no longer about empowering its individual users, it is just a proxy disinfo war between multiple powerful interests
@@breadpirateroberts4946 thats why interenet sadly needs to be consored by trusted parties because without any control powerful actors can manipulate truth and spread misinformation. Sadly you cannot trust anyone anymore but leaving everyone spread their thing without control is worse than having some control
"The arbiter of truth" This is exactly why I cannot stand censorship of any form. The arrogance required to believe you ever have moral authority over information is beyond me. There utilitarian overlords are straight out of a dystopian novel.
I can't believe it. I thought they knew the value of censorship-freedom and now they do something like this. I'm 100% for ukraine but this is absolutely devastating.. another tech guy who thinks he needs to play God and become a csnsor. Appalling
2 cents of mine: i get the idea to "protect" ignorant and easily impressionable people from russian propaganda, or propaganda in general but there are 3 additional problems: i like to watch russian state propaganda to look at their perspective and compare it with western media, even if i don't trust it at all, they make me understand people who are pro invasion better, also it gives me new perspectives and i can better disassemble arguments used in state media. Another problem is that obviously US propaganda isn't censored at all, the american government, but also companies are spreading misinformation all the time. Why suddenly only censor Russian misinformation? But no censoring of american propaganda? third problem is that yet again a company tries to monopolize and control the access to information.
Just one more reason to use a decentralized and fully open-source search engine like SearX (the server-side code of DDG isn't open-source, btw). Or better yet: if there isn't a good one of these already, make another decentralized search engine that isn't a meta-search one, but uses its own web crawlers that people can set up, like how people have their own Tor nodes or seed other people's torrents or mine cryptocurrency. That way, more control goes to the people who aren't on the official team for developing and designing the search engine.
I like how companies like UA-cam and DDG are slowly removing the one thing that people use their service for. I really want DDG to either revert this change or go to irrelevancy.
Do you know what “doesn't censor results” means? Think about it: if DuckDuckGo were to simply use traffic statistics like “most visited” to sort their results, it would merely get the results Google prefers because most people use Google. The page that is the first Google result is always the most visited site for a certain topic, hence having such a simple metric to sort your results will just lead to you becoming a Google clone. Hence, other methods need to be applied. A question can be be asked whether this implementation is good, or not, but from what I'm seeing so far it's just a way for the founder of DuckDuckGo to insert himself into the Ukraine invasion, as it's free advertising at this point, after all, we're talking about it. Until I've seen what is actually being changed, or if he just used the opportunity to announce making some vague changes giving very little vague information, I won't have an outcry about it. So far it's just some dude saying something may happen on his Twitter. Before I see what is actually being done, it's not worth talking about.
Even if I were to agree completely with duckduckgo's position on the conflict I am just so fucking tired of tech companies' stupid fucking paternalism.
At that point, everything is lost and we have failed. The only option is to wait for the Communists to come to your back yard and try and take as many of them with you when they murder you.
The news is on ukraine's side so I don't trust anything they say. 🤔 Also because the emotional manipulation is disgusting. 😾 I have a theory that the UN is gonna try a "safety police" or try to sell one world gov because of this... My gut says somethings off, and I have been learning to trust myself more and more.
As an American, the vast majority of us don't like it. It's my understanding you guys just get one side of our news, so it's not that radical of an opinion in reality.
How do you define what is and isn’t sponsored by the government? Here in the UK the government selects much membership of the higher levels of the BBC and decides on its funding: do we also put this mark on the BBC?
@@katethegoat7507 "It's not removed, it's just selectively put behind 1000s of other links that we approve of" If I remove 95% of your brain, it's not removed, 5% is still there.
There needs to be an extension where everytime I see a "flat earth" or "misinformation" tag under a video, there is a soyjak on the side pointing or holding up a sign.
@HMQ if you're smart you can prove the Earth's roundness without people telling you. No need for a soytag. Your comment was absolutely Reddit tier. Touch grass.
As for your statement about Russia's motivation behind all this, as a Ukrainian, I would have to disagree. Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 and started an ongoing conflict in the Donbass region. What's so important about them? They're reliably Pro-Russian voting areas of Ukraine, which is a very divided nation when voting. His invasion of these areas have the pro-west candidates a small but extremely important edge over the pro-russians. And despite all this, the only thing you really need to know is that, yes, Putin's security concerns are in fact, legit, but his response certainly is not. Targeting civilians is a line he should not of crossed. Lives cannot be brought back, but Putin continues to view them as dispensable with each and every escalation. His disregard involves both sides. I believe a major reason he so desperately wanted to invade is because his population, especially the men of military age, is decreasing, largely due to alcoholism. The longer he delays, the smaller his army will get, so he'd rather get them to die for him rather than to the alcohol his government (as well as centuries of previous governments) profit from and have used to control the minds of his population. He has now set in stone that as long as his government is in power, one way or another, an entire generation of Ukrainians will either absolutely hate the Russian state, or be extremely wary of any of their intentions, although just 10 years, or even a few months ago both these nations considered each other as close as brothers, and I don't mean that in a poetic way, most of the people of both these countries have friends, colleagues, relatives living in the other nation and neither side would actually want a war. He has singlehandedly proven NATO's security concerns correct. Also I'd like to address a major flaw with the "what if China invaded Canada" argument is that NATO simply kept its doors open to nations that wanted to join, which requires the people of that nation to vote on the decision first. The Baltic States didn't have the best history under Soviet rule, so it's completely justified they would want to join NATO, lest they be invaded like Georgia and Ukraine. Overall, even if Putin had a low chance of getting what he wants without an invasion, it's still many times more likely to happen if he never invaded Ukrainian territory in 2014. Also fun fact, a few years before the 2014 invasion, in the Donbass region as well the the territorial waters of Crimea massive reserves of fossil fuels were discovered, enough to make Ukraine one of the largest petro-states in the world. Obviously the Ukrainians did not have the technology to extract it so they looked to the west to invest in oil extraction. Ukraine wanted to sell the energy to Europe, as well as join the EU. The pro-russian president then stopped Ukraine joining the EU and instead said he'd allow the Russians to extract the fuel instead, one week before he was supposed to sign the agreement to join the EU. He did this with absolutely no warning despite giving his word. This led to the protests in Kyiv that led to a pro-west president to be replaced with the pro-russian one. And what does Russia do next? They invade and all foreigner investors into the oil extraction left. What next? They annex Crimea and take 80% of the oil off the coast, and next they start an ongoing conflict in Donbass and in 2022 declare the region as an "independent state", where the "separatists" are being suppressed and exploits by the "fascist" Ukrainian government. Obviously the fossil fuels weren't Russia's only concern with ukraine alligning with the west, but calling these circumstances anything similar to "coincidental" is simply false. I hope this paints a clearer picture of the situation for anyone that actually bothered to read this. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
When the conflict was only started I was 100% pro-ukrainian but the more I read the news from all sources (including ukrainian civillians videos) I more and more started to think that Putin doesn't want civillian deaths, ukrainian government does. They constantly tell civillians to fight against russian soldiers and even freely give away them weapons. Why? I think that they want civillians shoot russian soldiers to provoke them to shoot in response and kill them. And then they can complain to the world: "Russians kill innocent people". Convenient, isn't it? My conclusion: Ukrainian government wants ukrainian people deaths. For western media. The more the better.
Fundamentally, he just admitted DuckGo can selectively pick and choose what results you get. Who's to know what else they'll be selectively hiding. And placing news networks at the top... Seriously, that's the bane of any serious attempt at research, especially when it comes to political issues. It just makes it so much harder to find anything tangible.
that ability was always there btw, you just didn't notice or care. Which, that's kinda your fault. Every search engine is ranked somehow, and unless you can inspect the server source code you can't ever trust that they're not hiding something. So using a search engine always requires trust. Which, if "Russia has pushed nothing but propaganda lies so we'll downrank that shit" destroys that trust, that is the opposite of what you should be thinking, and once again a you problem. I do agree with the news boxes thing, in so far as the question remains: who picks the "reliable news sources?" This remains open, and that's why it's a separate info box at the top. Doesn't replace the search results, still lets you see all the sides, just the normies who don't care anyway get information that's probably higher quality than what RT would give them.
@@ipodtouch470 my experience on that is with google, and given that google tailors results based on what you consume... well, I consume near zero news outlets, so google should know I have practically zero interest in them and not prioritize them. But even if it didn't track your consumption, it should still not prioritize all of the same thing. I think it ought to give you more balanced results with no specific priority other than how well the keywords match. When the whole Kyle Kulinski thing went down, I was kinda tuned out. Then a little while ago I wanted to see for myself what went on, and as I tried looking for full, unedited and uncensored footage, I had wade through all the news crap for about an hour or two in order to find it.
God is a tyrant, communism is stupid, maintaining the status quo always ends up in authoritarnistic bullshit and there are 2 genders. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
@@bestaround3323 why do you care if these people believe in such things? *ahem* religion. Are you afraid of these flat earthers? Are you insecure about your education? Schools aren't teaching flat earth is a thing. The things they know and the things they believe in is not your responsibility.
@@xsael8501 Because these idiots can cause real problems. I would rather people not die preventable deaths due to medical misinformation, and would rather not have ignorance spread like wildfire. Not to mention I live in a place where said misinformed people get to vote on laws. So sorry if I put a little more stake into this problem.
IMO at the very least, the only real reason DDG started out as it did was to be able to get part of market share when it comes to search engines, since had they released just another generic search engine why would anyone ever switch to them from google. And that strategy did work, a good amount of people DID switch to it because of its initial promises which are now being broken since "Eh, we've got enough people using it, who cares anymore".
5:55 what is wrong with this map? 1. Sweden and Finland are NOT NATO-members nor militarily allied with each-others 2. Norway, Czech Republic, Greece, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland, Luxemburg and Belgium ARE NATO countries, but are missing here. Where did you get this map from? It is certainly not a map of NATO countries
Censorship is like mustard gas; it seems like the perfect weapon, until the wind changes direction. When the lies fail, they resort to censorship. Censorship, the social scoring system, and the cashless society is the new "containment" policy. When you censor someone, you are conceding defeat of your ideas. "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." by Leonard Nimoy as "Spock" in the Classic Star Trek episode "And The Children Shall Lead" "Only bad ideas require censorship in order to be maintained." by Dave Cullen
You've never fallen into a conspiracy hole, have you? Bad ideas are held up by people who have been brainwashed (by others or even themselves), who don't know how to handle reality if their idea would not be true. I'm OK with censoring failed ideas, ESPECIALLY when it comes to political ideologies. No blind censorship, but in a "covering the basics" kind of way. That being said, I don't live in a society that's easily corrupted. Not impervious to it, but it's generally harder to do here. I can imagine *Americans* freaking out though.
@@NostraDavid2 Censorship isn't the answer. Promoting critical thinking skills and academic literacy is. Unfortunately, no politician wants that because people are a lot harder to persuade when they're rational and no corporation wants it because it makes people less susceptible to deceptive advertising.
@@AbandonedVoid I agree that making people as literate as they can be is great. Not entirely sure if it's the end all be all, but it's great. Sadly, you also gave an answer on why it's not practical (for America). I think America's culture isn't suitable for stability. Not at this moment in time, though I can see they're trying (at least a little).
"It is reasonable for Russia to wage war in Europe because it benefits them" Well that's not how we Europeans see it as you can imagine, enjoying peace since WW2. 7:40 You obviously can act in your own intrest in an evil way. The two don't exclude each other like you implied. More so: doing immoral things against your own intrest would be readarded.
@@rawhide_kobayashi You imply reasonable="done with an existing reason(motive)". I doubt there is definition like this. I was going for "not extreme or excessive" and "in accordance to reason(intelligence)". I'd link a dictionary, but it seems to be treated as spam. To be clear: I am not saying putin is doing this for "no particular reason whatsoever". Evil deeds are done for reasons, usually materialistic ones. Understanding of this is the basis of our society. For example: stealing is still immoral even if it benefits you. Are you guys actually finding this out only now? What the hell!
@@mkano7434 Everything is relative. I can conjure a plethora of situations where stealing is super moral. The best thing to do. We love our thieves. You wouldn't say it's bad for Ukranians to steal Russian military hardware right now, would you?!
@@rawhide_kobayashi Nothing is moral or immoral if everything is relative. I couldn't say Ukrainians stealing the hardware is good or bad if i believed everything is relative. The terms would be meaningless. But I believe there is a morality, and because of it I can say that killing people is evil and trying to stop it is good and justified to some vague extent. I can't convince a cynic that something/someone is evil so I won't try.
The news ranking thing on UA-cam is so BS. A couple of months ago I try to find the "Navalney Roasts Vladimir Putin GTA" meme - all it did was throw me news outlet stories. Looks like it's better now, but UA-cam search is a nightmare when I try to find a primary source (like a first person video) or some kind of satire that doesn't come from some big TV network show. Also, it doesn't help that people can't volunteer to translate captions anymore on UA-cam, nor can regular captions (for deaf and hearing impaired) be added by a viewer. Hell, there were some humorous satirical captions -- all they needed to do is have users report false captions and let users be aware of satirical captions for hearing impaired. I wish DDG did a twitter-esque label saying "this website comes from Russian state affiliated media." If by default, users had a "derank Russian misinfo" that can be turned off like pr0n filters, then I think that would be much better than UA-cam's abomination of a search engine. Yes, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is very very bad. Yet, this might be a "highway to hell" being paved with good intentions.
Conspiracy theory is a really stupid term. It's just something the status quo doesn't want you to think, it can be just doubting what a politician says or believing the core of the Earth is full of unicorns. Better analyze info on a case by case basis and not use the modern version of the word heresy to describe any non mainstream idea.
I love how a handful of trolls in these comments are so stupid as to think that the issue here is about whether disinformation is good or bad rather than about the unaccountability and lack of transparency in political filtering of information.
The problem is Mental Outlaw literally claims no such thing as a bad guy in these sitations. I guess Hitler wasnt a bad guy then? I guess Germany was just doing whats in its interests? We shouldnt criticize them? I'm all against duckduckgo doing this buddy. Im very anti censorship, but im worried Mental Outlaw gets his funding and news from russia or something. or doesnt understand politics as at all
@@maridiancrest243 he’s not a geopolitical expert and nobody listens to him for his foreign policy takes. The same way nobody uses DuckDuckGo for their disinformation filters. I think it is a classic case of pozzed Silicon Valley culture of employees clashing with the libertarian culture of product users.
@@maridiancrest243 do you seriously still believe in that good/bad crap? And in war of all things? There's no such things as good or bad guys in war, it's only 'us' and 'them', or just 'them' if you're merely a watching bystander. Everyone is fending for their own interests, nothing more. Even Hitler, on his deranged ideals, cared little about anything that he didn't deem convenient. All those atrocities committed on his name couldn't have meant any less to him, and I can guarantee no authority in our countries is any different.
@@chuck_norris Fadcist is kind of clever. It is a good description for the flavor of the month zealous outrages that "normal" people violently impose on everyone else. Like @Maridian Crest
As someone else pointed out, more and more of their results are already basically identical to Google results (in a bad way). After a little testing of my own, since it's been literally years since I last used Google for anything, I decided to drop DDG from being the default search on either of my browsers. DDG results used to be very distinguished from Google, which is why I used it as default, but now it seems they're indistinguishable. I don't know if they were infiltrated or infected with woke-ism or what, but if I really want to resort to Google, I'll just resort to Google and not the turncoat search engine with now-identical results.
I used to trust DDG until recently. I've installed an app from the F-droid called "TrackerControl." It blocks trackers and also shows which trackers each app contacts. I have the DDG browser installed, and man, it was contacting some shady websites. Amazon, ATT, dianomi, and Google for advertising. Went ahead and removed their browser.
That’s unfortunately how they made revenue, by acting as a fall guy for Google to skirt accusations of being a monopoly. The way search works is very hard without the advertising money unfortunately
Startpage went dark and DDG was on it's way down. Don't forget: The founder of DDG, Gabriel Weinberg, was also behind a social network called Names Database, which collected the real names and addresses of its users. He then sold Names Database for “$10 million in cash” in March 2006. searX for the win
@@MrBiwinning123 startpage is owned by System1 which are basically a advertising company. they said that nothing will change but you might not want to trust that
Having friends on both sides of this conflict is very hard right now, and sometimes I just wish it were clear, but to censor everything coming out of Russia seems quite short sighted. If they are an enemy having a public completely unaware of what the Russians may be thinking is essentially letting your enemy have the high ground, especially if this evolves into a larger conflict.
@@tomfahey2823 There aren't really two sides here more so then there are two sides to a mugger and a person being mugged. If one side is not interested in compromises but only their own goals at the expense of everyone else then there is nothing to deescalate. There is the option to completely surrender and give away everything, which goes against every country's core, or to stand up against the aggressor.
Every popular service ever when it started: Look, we're totally not like the competing services out there. We listen to the people. 10 years later: Actually now that we've established our business and have a good image we can do a 180.
@@happinson i dont know if you are joking but 360 is doing the exact same thing as you were doing, just spinning around to go the exact same direction.
We live in a world where intellectuals aren't created by the merit of their discourse, but big brains are elected as intellectuals by big tech algorithm. This is scary, because there is no algorithm for truth.
@@NawidN That if videos or articles or books you did become popular thanks to an algorithm, you don't become a renowned intellectual because you deserve it, but because of an algorithm...
Also, I'm not sure where did you get the map on 6:00, but it isn't accurate: Norway, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Greece, North Macedonia, Lithuania and Estonia are also part of NATO. The last two joined in 2004 with Latvia that you did mark as a member on your map. And the distance between the Baltic states and Moscow is pretty much the same as between Ukraine and Moscow. They are even much closer to St Petersburg. Moreover, Putin starting a war forced Sweden and Finland, previously neutral countries, to think about joining the alliance (the fact that is depicted on your map). So the NATO expansion argument is invalidated by the consequences of Putin's actions. P.S. I do agree that the new DDG rules are against what they stood for, but I think your video would be better if you would say just that
@@UnixOath Browsers are a bit complicated… but you can try surf if you don’t mind not having tabs Otherwise, try brave if you’re ok with chromium based browsers As for search engines, there’s always searx
Organisations that named themselves something as "stop fake news" "propaganda info" etc. Also, big corporations never lie, that's what I read in one of top sell's newspaper about recognition of fake news.
@@rompevuevitos222 the problem of misinformation and how big it's been getting by the seconds is an excuse for bringing back censoring galore. This was supposed to start an argument with you, wow
I use Yandex as a primary, but use another three for balance when searching for things likely to be biased or when the Yandex results are just too Cyrillic. Google/Bing/DDG is just that bad.
Outsourcing the responsibility of doing quality research to others only ever leads to being misinformed. This will only end up creating more of the problem that it claims to resolve.
This isn't stopping anyone from doing quality research. The only people this effects are those who click the first result and believe everything they read.
@@CarrotConsumer that wasn't my point. My point was people in control of these platforms trying to control misinformation ultimately creates more misinformation. It's like when Facebook implimented their fact-checking system. There will never be a way to truly elevate the burden of validating information away from the person doing the research. Yes, the only people who this affects will be those people you mentioned, but unfortunately said people make up an extremely large percentage of the global population. My point is more directed at those who feel platform owners should be responsible for the quality of information on their platform, when in reality the responsibility has and always will be held at the individual level. It's not about stopping anyone from doing quality research; it's about the futility of trying to make it so people don't have to worry about it at all.
@@CarrotConsumer the issue is that most people aren’t all that interested in news, so they are content with reading a few headlines from mainstream media sources, so the fight for what media sources are given this spot is what matters for information spreading
@@Motoboo_Marine i am one of theose people, and i want to revert to windows 7, and to install a custom ROM becose the notification feed in my phone glows hard (feel free to screenshot) but i am just too lazy to get a phone that is NOT injected with artifical slowdown so i buy a new phone. windows shows news feeds in the windows menu and when opening a browser, and so does it show news when you open a browser. dude i do not want "windows approved" stuff in my face. just no.
@@jackspedicy2711 I know you just said you're lazy, but please take the time to look into the settings for both your phone and Windows. You can disable virtually all of those news.
Ukraine got part of their territory annezed by Russia back in 2014 (Crimean annexation). Ukraine has very good reasons to want to join NATO. Also NATO basically only exists so that Russia doesn't invade small countries
Hey there, I'm your subscriber from Russia, I found your channel around 2 months ago. Just wanted to say thanks for staying neutral on the topic of current wаr. I don't support the wаr myself, but it sucks to see so many people in the west just non-stop sh*tting on Russia, thanks for not being one of them. Also sorry if my viewership doesn't bring you ad revenue
While at first it might look like a good idea, this opens a very dangerous door. The matter of disinformation is still an unsolved issue though; while censorship can serve to keep you from learning the truth, wide swaths of the population have revealed themselves to be unable to recognize the truth even when it hits them in the face...
You take care of that with a decebt education system. To this day I dont know what americans learn at school.... one of the core skills is to be able to properly analyse sources in media and properly get your info
@@fgsaramago Critical thinking skills got nyxed in the curriculum at least a decade ago, 30+ years for colleges and universities. Only small town rural schools still have any semblance of sanity to them.
@@_zigger_ It's staggeringly stupid how many people genuinely believe others can't form opinions about geopolitics on their own. This guy is saying censorship is bad, why are you just believing what he says instead of thinking for yourself? See how fucking stupid that sounds?
The trouble being that the engine's bias itself is a form of censorship. Even without censorship baked in,.No matter what, they will display ranked results according to an algorithm and that will create a bias towards a certain category of information. There was a proposed feature in a search engine by Brave that never got made that allowed you to self regulate what information will be shown to you; allowing you to hide what YOU determine to be misinformation. That does allow you to build an echo chamber but at least you're in control.
time to find another search engine.... sad, for one side it's kinda refreshing to see a big tech company admitting the shenanigans, but by the other side, it's always a big red flag when a company starts to virtude signaling, gg time to find an alternative.
Although I agree with censorship being bad I also have to point out that your take on the whole Russia is just defending itself part is an example of you not really understanding the situation. Yes, Russian state media presented "facts" are more of then than not false information and used for psychological warfare and thus should be restricted the same way guns are(at least in civilized cultures) restricted in the name of general wellbeing. This is a slippery slope into restricting actual facts and as such needs more thought put into it as to how to deal with this properly but just letting someone keep flooding the web with false information (that sadly a lot of people seem to take as truth) is not a good option in the long run. FYI the whole Russia is defending itself narrative brakes down as soon as you realize that NATO has never posed any attacking threat to Russia, only posed a threat to Russian expansionism. And understanding that the nations that were part of USSR (unwillingly, as most of them were) wanting protection from such expansion is what drove them into NATO not some US led conspiracy to destroy Russia.
It's like people forget that the oppressive soviet union existed only a few decades ago, never really disappeared, and their leader today is literally a KGB agent.
Mate, your morals and ethics are on point w.r.t. this issue. Every culture have their nuances. Playing God with them is just plain stupid. Minding one's own business is something first world nations have to learn.
I find it odd how many people get offended over your statement. They'll also say stupid shit like how non-White nations need to be controlled because the people are too inferior to control their nations. White people kill each other all the time and fight over stupid shit, as Russia and Ukraine shows. And the US being the world's police actually proves the irony of a rich country not being morally superior to anyone else.
I knew something like this was going to happen. I was in the car and the radio played MULTIPLE duck duck go ads within just an hour. I was like "uhhhhh where are they getting this money?"
@@LanHikari90 It looks like you can actually refine your search on Yandex to get results with black people, trying to refine the search to get results with white people on google or bing resulted in no change at all
I'm pretty sure they didn't magically develop a truth-algorithm, they are simply going to rank information coming from known Russian assets/associates lower. Something that's not terribly hard to figure out.
Holy fuck, Outlaw you're the first person I've had say a based isolationist take, literally everyone is getting so easily manipulated by american propaganda. Thank you for being one person to actually not be controlled.
I don't support either side, stop letting yourselves be controlled like sheep. Neither side winning will be good overall. We're both nuclear powers and none of us here have the luxury of having a fancy bunker beneath our homes
@@r0e404 false equivalences don't make you smart, they are very much part of the russian propaganda machine. The west is by far a better place to be. Stop talking like you know anything about the real world when you watch cartoons all day.
Generally I would agree with you but the lack of familiarity with a different culture is a non factor here, you're not there to dictate who's going to govern the state, you're there at the request of another sovereign country to defend it, it's very different from invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq or whatever other example you're comparing it to. Quite different stories, this is a plain invasion and the western countries are engaged at the request of democratically elected Ukrainian government that represents the Ukrainian people and their will.
@@altr9666 Your whole comment is just unnecessary whataboutism. My comment was about how comparing Ukrainian situation to Afghanistan or Iraq is a false comparison. Move on.
@@ararune3734 theres no such thing as "whataboutism". Invoking it just nakes americans look dumb, its like when americans invoke other excuses like "racism" to avoid responding to something. Simply not a valid argument
@@fgsaramago Yes it is, it falls under the category of tu quoque logical fallacy. Educate yourself plebeian. Fuk off with the Americans already, will you both? I'm not American, either address the things I talked about or move on, this is not a place for your rants. Once again you're using a logical fallacy, just because Americans are guilty of something, it doesn't excuse you for doing the same. Or do you think Americans are the supreme role model and the authority?
I'm using DuckDuckGo for years. After seeing the tweet, I'm switching to a different search engine, probably Yendex as the video suggests. Thank you, Mental Outlaw.
4:05 Mental Outlow: i prefer to stay neutral especially when we're dealing with cultures we know nothing about also Mental Outlow: *proceeds to talk for 7 minutes how russians are completely justified in attacking ukraine*
The news is on ukraine's side so I don't trust anything they say. 🤔 Also because the emotional manipulation is disgusting. 😾 I have a theory that the UN is gonna try a "safety police" or try to sell one world gov because of this... My gut says somethings off, and I have been learning to trust myself more and more.
@@frankmerker630 are you stupid? point is, he says "invasion of iraq" is bad because "they don't know the culture", but somehow it doesn't apply when he's talking about ukraine?
@@fatcat5817 gee, i wonder why they are on ukraine's side! i don't know, maybe EMPATHY? a sense of JUSTICE? "emotional manipulation" literally get out. people don't die there just to score "symphathy points", they die because THEY'RE INVADED. what's next, your gut says vaccines are bad?
Excellent points. Seems a lot of these companies born in the USA have forgotten the principles that allowed them to be strong companies. Things like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association.
@@Mr.Riojas sure, in the more distant past the US was doing great while it was genociding the indians or having a civil war because it wanted to be the last country in the world to still have slavery. Some great job there
@@thomas.thomas That would have been a based option, yes. Tho if America had stuck to isolationism and not intervened in WW1 and subsequently forced its Wilsonian insanity on Europe there possibly wouldn't have been a WW2 to intervene in anyway.
I'm no expert, but the map you showed when talking about nato was wrong (or just not trying to represent nato members). I'm not sure what the green color of Sweden and Finland is supposed to represent but other than that several countries that are part of nato (according to nato's website) weren't in yellow: Iceland (which is one of the founding countries), Norway (also one of the founding countries), Estonia, Lithuania, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia, North Macedonia and Greece.
The whole tirade abot nato made no sense to begin with. Nato membership of ukraine has nothing to do with this, not even the russians present it as one of the main reasons. Its quite parhetic that americans and american media is desperatelybtrying to make the situation in some way be about them
That may be so but Ukraine has been asking for our help whereas a lot of the times when the US gets involved, they either don't ask or actively ask us not to get involved.
Last time an European country invaded another one was September 1st, 1939. We have a pretty much similar situation, but with 6000+ nuclear warhead on the other side. The rest of the arguments that Russia is acting in its best interest is simplistic and in many way infantile. That being said, EU sensorship of RT and Sputnik was a stupidity. And this move of DuckDuckGo is equally stupid.
It was?? Youre forgetting a lot of invasions between there and now. Georgia was invaded by Russia as recently as 2008. Azerbaijan and Armenia invade each other on the daily
So thinking Russia acting on its own best interest is infantile? So the opinion that western media heavily implies that Russia is basically evil is what then?
Agreed. If you show me bloody lemurs instead of blessed procyonids when I search for ringtails, you do not have my respect. (Yes, I'm biased, but what can I say?)
sure that works. I guess the war isn't anywhere close to you in America, so you can just go with the cop-out position of "we don't care who's in the right, we don't wanna do anything", sure that works Don't come crying if Putin attacks NATO and makes this everyone's problem.
In a sense, you could argue that those sanctions are pretty much the same as DRM: meant to protect the legitimate customer, but only the legitimate customer is harmed when push comes to shove.
Most Sanctions are quite ridiculous. I guess it's an effective way to ensure that the message is heard, as more and more Russians are protesting against the government now, yet it must just be saddening for Russians to see them being punished for having done nothing wrong and not deciding to have a war.. Many, MANY oppose it, so I see why some sanctions really go above and beyond... In the end of the day, the people are the backbone of the economy, as much as western corporations are WESTERN corporations, they still pay taxes to Russia if stationed in Russia, hence western corporations pulling out of Russia harms the people of Russia, but also limits the money the Russian government has, for example on military spending.
@@ErikUden These sanctions have a completely opposite effect. They do not affect the vast majority of russians, only the handful of them, who already don't really support Russian government, making them wonder "wtf I did to deserve this, looks like western democracies punish me for being Russian, just like Putin says!". Not to mention that pro-government russians were quick to remind everyone about Yugoslavia and how NATO enforced humanitarian bombings of Sarajevo. And one other thing, guess who'll jump right into Russian market, taking every opportunity to occupy every niche possible? China. Xi and Pu are big friends nowadays. It's a bit scary that China is way more active near Taiwan than usual, if they take it, boom.
@@user_imyarek if I were the Chinese gov right now I'd be pushing HARD for my companies to barge into the Russian market. I'll get both russian money and more influence in Russia.
the purpose of a search engine is to index the internet not gatekeep it. its not supposed to be a political entity, its supposed to be a tool
this
But guess what the governments turn it into political entity when they are not supervised. This move is good. Russia is abusing the hell out of internet freedom and they need to be stopped
Well, one thing is for sure. Weinberg has become a tool.
@@TheGoQu russia's propaganda is widespread sure. but if the very way in which you find content online is actively maniuplating its own results for a political agenda, you truly have no idea if you're seeing an accurate reflection of what people are talking about. the russian govt has added one layer of obfuscation, DDG has done nothing but add yet another. the internet is no longer about empowering its individual users, it is just a proxy disinfo war between multiple powerful interests
@@breadpirateroberts4946 thats why interenet sadly needs to be consored by trusted parties because without any control powerful actors can manipulate truth and spread misinformation. Sadly you cannot trust anyone anymore but leaving everyone spread their thing without control is worse than having some control
And suddently DuckDuckGo started glowing, losing their entire customer base.
They were glowing from the start with a name like Weinberg.
@@randgrithr7387 early life moment.
Who needs Facists as "Customers" anways? 😂
@@chuck_norris You'd live in a society where "thought crimes" exist?
@@chuck_norris Way to be disingenuous.
"The arbiter of truth" This is exactly why I cannot stand censorship of any form. The arrogance required to believe you ever have moral authority over information is beyond me. There utilitarian overlords are straight out of a dystopian novel.
That kid's name is Weinberg
I can't believe it. I thought they knew the value of censorship-freedom and now they do something like this. I'm 100% for ukraine but this is absolutely devastating.. another tech guy who thinks he needs to play God and become a csnsor. Appalling
"Look guys, we’re good people! We censor for ukraine virtue signalling!! We didnt have any reason to, but we did anyways!"
@@volkingdeath5312 I think I get it now.
Thank you both.
I'm for Russia. There's more to this invasion than MSM wants you to believe. It's not out of malice.
@@randgrithr7387 if it wasn't out of malice then they wouldn't be shelling civilians and medical facilities
@@ultimate9056 That's one or two...
2 cents of mine:
i get the idea to "protect" ignorant and easily impressionable people from russian propaganda, or propaganda in general
but there are 3 additional problems: i like to watch russian state propaganda to look at their perspective and compare it with western media, even if i don't trust it at all, they make me understand people who are pro invasion better, also it gives me new perspectives and i can better disassemble arguments used in state media.
Another problem is that obviously US propaganda isn't censored at all, the american government, but also companies are spreading misinformation all the time. Why suddenly only censor Russian misinformation? But no censoring of american propaganda?
third problem is that yet again a company tries to monopolize and control the access to information.
You're are's moms are propogand
Good comment. Fully agree.
It's really just being reactionary and jumping on the hype train to maybe get some praise. I don't think DDG will actually change anything.
Russia IS NOT THE ENEMY, NATO IS and Ukraine and your American regime are once again LYING AND WARING for economic reasons.
‘Protecting you’ is the excuse of every tyrant.
Just one more reason to use a decentralized and fully open-source search engine like SearX (the server-side code of DDG isn't open-source, btw). Or better yet: if there isn't a good one of these already, make another decentralized search engine that isn't a meta-search one, but uses its own web crawlers that people can set up, like how people have their own Tor nodes or seed other people's torrents or mine cryptocurrency. That way, more control goes to the people who aren't on the official team for developing and designing the search engine.
I like how companies like UA-cam and DDG are slowly removing the one thing that people use their service for. I really want DDG to either revert this change or go to irrelevancy.
Do you know what “doesn't censor results” means? Think about it: if DuckDuckGo were to simply use traffic statistics like “most visited” to sort their results, it would merely get the results Google prefers because most people use Google. The page that is the first Google result is always the most visited site for a certain topic, hence having such a simple metric to sort your results will just lead to you becoming a Google clone.
Hence, other methods need to be applied.
A question can be be asked whether this implementation is good, or not, but from what I'm seeing so far it's just a way for the founder of DuckDuckGo to insert himself into the Ukraine invasion, as it's free advertising at this point, after all, we're talking about it.
Until I've seen what is actually being changed, or if he just used the opportunity to announce making some vague changes giving very little vague information, I won't have an outcry about it. So far it's just some dude saying something may happen on his Twitter. Before I see what is actually being done, it's not worth talking about.
@@ErikUden If you think most visited is the only metric of relevancy then you or any search engine that follow that principle are sorely mistaken.
Honestly I don't even care anymore. People are way too dumb to handle information.
@@ashwinalagiri-rajan1180 then what are other metrics?
They were alwaya going to make this change. They get you using their platform first and then implement these changes.
Perfect timing! Just the other day I was thinking how dangerous it is to think for myself.
The danger lies in those who cannot. And believe me, they outnumber the ones who can.
@@nb5029 Nah fuck censorship
And they'll use google, not ddg anyways.
same
this clinches it for me
LOL
Even if I were to agree completely with duckduckgo's position on the conflict I am just so fucking tired of tech companies' stupid fucking paternalism.
How can this get worse?
"I will start censoring disinformation" -Mental Outlaw
"I was a glowie honeypot the whole time, get no-knocked losers."
"I will start promoting reverse information"
Spyware installation tutorials
@@wertyxq3468 but its opposite day
At that point, everything is lost and we have failed. The only option is to wait for the Communists to come to your back yard and try and take as many of them with you when they murder you.
As a European, nothing sounds sweeter to our ears than hearing Americans say "I don't like America being involved in foreign affairs"
The news is on ukraine's side so I don't trust anything they say. 🤔 Also because the emotional manipulation is disgusting. 😾 I have a theory that the UN is gonna try a "safety police" or try to sell one world gov because of this... My gut says somethings off, and I have been learning to trust myself more and more.
As an American, the vast majority of us don't like it. It's my understanding you guys just get one side of our news, so it's not that radical of an opinion in reality.
We should've never blockaded the Japanese during their invasion of China
@Voodoo Yam I think you mean China. We left those areas long ago. If you mean us Brits still owning the Falklands then please do cry about it.
@Voodoo Yam Sorry how does Europe influence South America today? You're in the hands of USA and China.
The Ministry of Truth is real.
IS RAEL
This is literally 1984
"Literally 1984"
@L. Kärkkäinen yes
Any books similar to 1984?
Instead of filtering they could just make a note in search results that "this media is sponsored by Russian government" or something
They already do in social media, btw nice new Russian People's flag I appreciate it
Do they actually filter results? Don't the tweets just say they'll push misinformation further down the resultsm
@@efwfewewf4649 it doesn't remove them though
How do you define what is and isn’t sponsored by the government? Here in the UK the government selects much membership of the higher levels of the BBC and decides on its funding: do we also put this mark on the BBC?
@@katethegoat7507 "It's not removed, it's just selectively put behind 1000s of other links that we approve of"
If I remove 95% of your brain, it's not removed, 5% is still there.
There needs to be an extension where everytime I see a "flat earth" or "misinformation" tag under a video, there is a soyjak on the side pointing or holding up a sign.
@HMQ if you're smart you can prove the Earth's roundness without people telling you. No need for a soytag.
Your comment was absolutely Reddit tier. Touch grass.
Cringe and unbased. y’all let me know some good engines to use when DDG falls, or falls farther rather.
searx
Startpage
Brave?
@@imperiumproductions4546 doesn't startpage use google's index?
Make your own. Actually not that hard
As for your statement about Russia's motivation behind all this, as a Ukrainian, I would have to disagree. Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 and started an ongoing conflict in the Donbass region. What's so important about them? They're reliably Pro-Russian voting areas of Ukraine, which is a very divided nation when voting. His invasion of these areas have the pro-west candidates a small but extremely important edge over the pro-russians.
And despite all this, the only thing you really need to know is that, yes, Putin's security concerns are in fact, legit, but his response certainly is not. Targeting civilians is a line he should not of crossed. Lives cannot be brought back, but Putin continues to view them as dispensable with each and every escalation. His disregard involves both sides. I believe a major reason he so desperately wanted to invade is because his population, especially the men of military age, is decreasing, largely due to alcoholism. The longer he delays, the smaller his army will get, so he'd rather get them to die for him rather than to the alcohol his government (as well as centuries of previous governments) profit from and have used to control the minds of his population. He has now set in stone that as long as his government is in power, one way or another, an entire generation of Ukrainians will either absolutely hate the Russian state, or be extremely wary of any of their intentions, although just 10 years, or even a few months ago both these nations considered each other as close as brothers, and I don't mean that in a poetic way, most of the people of both these countries have friends, colleagues, relatives living in the other nation and neither side would actually want a war. He has singlehandedly proven NATO's security concerns correct. Also I'd like to address a major flaw with the "what if China invaded Canada" argument is that NATO simply kept its doors open to nations that wanted to join, which requires the people of that nation to vote on the decision first. The Baltic States didn't have the best history under Soviet rule, so it's completely justified they would want to join NATO, lest they be invaded like Georgia and Ukraine.
Overall, even if Putin had a low chance of getting what he wants without an invasion, it's still many times more likely to happen if he never invaded Ukrainian territory in 2014.
Also fun fact, a few years before the 2014 invasion, in the Donbass region as well the the territorial waters of Crimea massive reserves of fossil fuels were discovered, enough to make Ukraine one of the largest petro-states in the world. Obviously the Ukrainians did not have the technology to extract it so they looked to the west to invest in oil extraction. Ukraine wanted to sell the energy to Europe, as well as join the EU. The pro-russian president then stopped Ukraine joining the EU and instead said he'd allow the Russians to extract the fuel instead, one week before he was supposed to sign the agreement to join the EU. He did this with absolutely no warning despite giving his word. This led to the protests in Kyiv that led to a pro-west president to be replaced with the pro-russian one. And what does Russia do next? They invade and all foreigner investors into the oil extraction left. What next? They annex Crimea and take 80% of the oil off the coast, and next they start an ongoing conflict in Donbass and in 2022 declare the region as an "independent state", where the "separatists" are being suppressed and exploits by the "fascist" Ukrainian government. Obviously the fossil fuels weren't Russia's only concern with ukraine alligning with the west, but calling these circumstances anything similar to "coincidental" is simply false.
I hope this paints a clearer picture of the situation for anyone that actually bothered to read this. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
As a Pole, I'm not reading all this but from the bits i did read i agree
When the conflict was only started I was 100% pro-ukrainian but the more I read the news from all sources (including ukrainian civillians videos) I more and more started to think that Putin doesn't want civillian deaths, ukrainian government does.
They constantly tell civillians to fight against russian soldiers and even freely give away them weapons. Why? I think that they want civillians shoot russian soldiers to provoke them to shoot in response and kill them. And then they can complain to the world: "Russians kill innocent people". Convenient, isn't it?
My conclusion: Ukrainian government wants ukrainian people deaths. For western media. The more the better.
Very well summarized, this has been my view of the matter as well. Slava ukraini from a Russian-Ukrainian brother
Fundamentally, he just admitted DuckGo can selectively pick and choose what results you get. Who's to know what else they'll be selectively hiding.
And placing news networks at the top... Seriously, that's the bane of any serious attempt at research, especially when it comes to political issues. It just makes it so much harder to find anything tangible.
Good point. Within a couple of weeks all of sudden we have this capability to curate results. Sure okay, Mr Weinburg
Why wouldn’t network news come out at the top though? I would think that they have the best Seo to rank high on the top of the page on any search.
I mean I am not surprised a private closed source engine you don't think they didn't manipulate results.
that ability was always there btw, you just didn't notice or care. Which, that's kinda your fault. Every search engine is ranked somehow, and unless you can inspect the server source code you can't ever trust that they're not hiding something. So using a search engine always requires trust. Which, if "Russia has pushed nothing but propaganda lies so we'll downrank that shit" destroys that trust, that is the opposite of what you should be thinking, and once again a you problem.
I do agree with the news boxes thing, in so far as the question remains: who picks the "reliable news sources?" This remains open, and that's why it's a separate info box at the top. Doesn't replace the search results, still lets you see all the sides, just the normies who don't care anyway get information that's probably higher quality than what RT would give them.
@@ipodtouch470 my experience on that is with google, and given that google tailors results based on what you consume... well, I consume near zero news outlets, so google should know I have practically zero interest in them and not prioritize them.
But even if it didn't track your consumption, it should still not prioritize all of the same thing. I think it ought to give you more balanced results with no specific priority other than how well the keywords match.
When the whole Kyle Kulinski thing went down, I was kinda tuned out. Then a little while ago I wanted to see for myself what went on, and as I tried looking for full, unedited and uncensored footage, I had wade through all the news crap for about an hour or two in order to find it.
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."
I fear some of you all might believe his bullshit and act on it
Please take a look at flat earthers and anti vaxers for a good example of why disinformation is a bad thing.
God is a tyrant, communism is stupid, maintaining the status quo always ends up in authoritarnistic bullshit and there are 2 genders.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
@@bestaround3323 why do you care if these people believe in such things? *ahem* religion.
Are you afraid of these flat earthers? Are you insecure about your education? Schools aren't teaching flat earth is a thing. The things they know and the things they believe in is not your responsibility.
@@xsael8501 Because these idiots can cause real problems. I would rather people not die preventable deaths due to medical misinformation, and would rather not have ignorance spread like wildfire.
Not to mention I live in a place where said misinformed people get to vote on laws. So sorry if I put a little more stake into this problem.
IMO at the very least, the only real reason DDG started out as it did was to be able to get part of market share when it comes to search engines, since had they released just another generic search engine why would anyone ever switch to them from google. And that strategy did work, a good amount of people DID switch to it because of its initial promises which are now being broken since "Eh, we've got enough people using it, who cares anymore".
Yeah, and they DO show advertisements, but I've always thought about how they made money.
Every new tech company ever
@@powerdude_dk they use Microsoft ad and MS pays for that as far as I know.
I have a feeling a lot of the alt-media platforms will do exactly the same thing.
People with names like Weinberg do not care about having principals.
5:55 what is wrong with this map?
1. Sweden and Finland are NOT NATO-members nor militarily allied with each-others
2. Norway, Czech Republic, Greece, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland, Luxemburg and Belgium ARE NATO countries, but are missing here.
Where did you get this map from? It is certainly not a map of NATO countries
sweden and finland are not nato members, they consider nato membership but are not at the time im writing this
@@danielsteger8456 Sorry, i made a typo there. i meant to say they are "NOT"
Censorship is like mustard gas; it seems like the perfect weapon, until the wind changes direction.
When the lies fail, they resort to censorship.
Censorship, the social scoring system, and the cashless society is the new "containment" policy.
When you censor someone, you are conceding defeat of your ideas.
"Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." by Leonard Nimoy as "Spock" in the Classic Star Trek episode "And The Children Shall Lead"
"Only bad ideas require censorship in order to be maintained." by Dave Cullen
This assumes a level of rationality not found in the average person.
You've never fallen into a conspiracy hole, have you? Bad ideas are held up by people who have been brainwashed (by others or even themselves), who don't know how to handle reality if their idea would not be true.
I'm OK with censoring failed ideas, ESPECIALLY when it comes to political ideologies. No blind censorship, but in a "covering the basics" kind of way.
That being said, I don't live in a society that's easily corrupted. Not impervious to it, but it's generally harder to do here. I can imagine *Americans* freaking out though.
@@NostraDavid2 Censorship isn't the answer. Promoting critical thinking skills and academic literacy is. Unfortunately, no politician wants that because people are a lot harder to persuade when they're rational and no corporation wants it because it makes people less susceptible to deceptive advertising.
@@NostraDavid2 Exactly, I wonder why reddit allows there a subreddit called r/communism to exist then???
@@AbandonedVoid I agree that making people as literate as they can be is great. Not entirely sure if it's the end all be all, but it's great.
Sadly, you also gave an answer on why it's not practical (for America). I think America's culture isn't suitable for stability. Not at this moment in time, though I can see they're trying (at least a little).
"It is reasonable for Russia to wage war in Europe because it benefits them"
Well that's not how we Europeans see it as you can imagine, enjoying peace since WW2. 7:40 You obviously can act in your own intrest in an evil way. The two don't exclude each other like you implied. More so: doing immoral things against your own intrest would be readarded.
hmm, yes, let me start a war for no particular reason whatsoever...
t. putin probably
I'm against DDG censoring but that part doesn't make sense for me too
@@rawhide_kobayashi You imply reasonable="done with an existing reason(motive)". I doubt there is definition like this. I was going for "not extreme or excessive" and "in accordance to reason(intelligence)". I'd link a dictionary, but it seems to be treated as spam.
To be clear: I am not saying putin is doing this for "no particular reason whatsoever". Evil deeds are done for reasons, usually materialistic ones. Understanding of this is the basis of our society. For example: stealing is still immoral even if it benefits you. Are you guys actually finding this out only now? What the hell!
@@mkano7434 Everything is relative. I can conjure a plethora of situations where stealing is super moral. The best thing to do. We love our thieves.
You wouldn't say it's bad for Ukranians to steal Russian military hardware right now, would you?!
@@rawhide_kobayashi Nothing is moral or immoral if everything is relative. I couldn't say Ukrainians stealing the hardware is good or bad if i believed everything is relative. The terms would be meaningless.
But I believe there is a morality, and because of it I can say that killing people is evil and trying to stop it is good and justified to some vague extent.
I can't convince a cynic that something/someone is evil so I won't try.
The news ranking thing on UA-cam is so BS. A couple of months ago I try to find the "Navalney Roasts Vladimir Putin GTA" meme - all it did was throw me news outlet stories. Looks like it's better now, but UA-cam search is a nightmare when I try to find a primary source (like a first person video) or some kind of satire that doesn't come from some big TV network show. Also, it doesn't help that people can't volunteer to translate captions anymore on UA-cam, nor can regular captions (for deaf and hearing impaired) be added by a viewer. Hell, there were some humorous satirical captions -- all they needed to do is have users report false captions and let users be aware of satirical captions for hearing impaired.
I wish DDG did a twitter-esque label saying "this website comes from Russian state affiliated media." If by default, users had a "derank Russian misinfo" that can be turned off like pr0n filters, then I think that would be much better than UA-cam's abomination of a search engine. Yes, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is very very bad. Yet, this might be a "highway to hell" being paved with good intentions.
Yeah maybe we SHOULD just quit the internet altogether
Build our own mesh WAN?
The FCC can't dronestrike us all!
start now coward
I'm going start using the interbob!
@@Moister356 I'll fucking do it,... soon
@@Isaax now
Holy fuck, what you said about privacy is on point, but the rest sounded like what an /x/ and /pol/ frequenter would say lmao
Stick to what you know
"You were the chosen one! Sent to destroy the censorship, not join them!"
how ironic with ukraine joining nato
Anakin moment
@@CariagaXIII When did that happen roflmao?
One problem with censorship: it makes thinking people wonder what you're trying to hide, and fuels conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theory is a really stupid term. It's just something the status quo doesn't want you to think, it can be just doubting what a politician says or believing the core of the Earth is full of unicorns. Better analyze info on a case by case basis and not use the modern version of the word heresy to describe any non mainstream idea.
It doesn't matter. Us thinking people are in the minority unfortunately.
@@nerosmith2578 Conspiracy theories are anything that isn’t true, not “anything non mainstream”
@@snowflakemelter7171 You are living in a delusion
Yeah no shit, conspiracy fuels conspiracy theories
7:25 why does Ukraine joining NATO imply that countries will start buying oil from Ukraine instead of Russia?
I love how a handful of trolls in these comments are so stupid as to think that the issue here is about whether disinformation is good or bad rather than about the unaccountability and lack of transparency in political filtering of information.
The problem is Mental Outlaw literally claims no such thing as a bad guy in these sitations. I guess Hitler wasnt a bad guy then? I guess Germany was just doing whats in its interests? We shouldnt criticize them?
I'm all against duckduckgo doing this buddy. Im very anti censorship, but im worried Mental Outlaw gets his funding and news from russia or something. or doesnt understand politics as at all
@@maridiancrest243 he’s not a geopolitical expert and nobody listens to him for his foreign policy takes. The same way nobody uses DuckDuckGo for their disinformation filters. I think it is a classic case of pozzed Silicon Valley culture of employees clashing with the libertarian culture of product users.
@@maridiancrest243 do you seriously still believe in that good/bad crap? And in war of all things? There's no such things as good or bad guys in war, it's only 'us' and 'them', or just 'them' if you're merely a watching bystander. Everyone is fending for their own interests, nothing more. Even Hitler, on his deranged ideals, cared little about anything that he didn't deem convenient. All those atrocities committed on his name couldn't have meant any less to him, and I can guarantee no authority in our countries is any different.
ok Fadchist no one asked😗
@@chuck_norris Fadcist is kind of clever. It is a good description for the flavor of the month zealous outrages that "normal" people violently impose on everyone else. Like @Maridian Crest
As someone else pointed out, more and more of their results are already basically identical to Google results (in a bad way). After a little testing of my own, since it's been literally years since I last used Google for anything, I decided to drop DDG from being the default search on either of my browsers. DDG results used to be very distinguished from Google, which is why I used it as default, but now it seems they're indistinguishable. I don't know if they were infiltrated or infected with woke-ism or what, but if I really want to resort to Google, I'll just resort to Google and not the turncoat search engine with now-identical results.
Use startpage its a proxy type i use it. Google can only track me in youtube now
What do you mean infected by wokeism?
@@shimaphys What classifies as a "white" person
woke-ism... what the fuck did I just read.
I used to trust DDG until recently. I've installed an app from the F-droid called "TrackerControl." It blocks trackers and also shows which trackers each app contacts. I have the DDG browser installed, and man, it was contacting some shady websites. Amazon, ATT, dianomi, and Google for advertising. Went ahead and removed their browser.
That’s unfortunately how they made revenue, by acting as a fall guy for Google to skirt accusations of being a monopoly. The way search works is very hard without the advertising money unfortunately
Even brave has trackers on mobile. I think that's just a chromium thing.
I installed TrackerControl, thanks for the recomend.
@Randgrithr You're welcome. And thanks for the correction of the app's name. I'll edit my comment.
That’s disappointing, I have a two year old version of the DDG browser on my old android phone and it doesn’t contain any trackers.
7:19 Ukraine neither has oil nor gas, so there is no way EU and US would buy these resources from Ukraine
tells you all we need to know, dude has no idea what he's talking about and tries to sound smart.
Rip. Turns out duckduckgo isn't what we thought it was...
4Chan figured this out a year ago by finding out what country searches were routed to. I get censored if I say it.
@@randgrithr7387 lemme guess, the yellow commies?
@@randgrithr7387 the land of the 12 tribes?
@@randgrithr7387 any more info on the subject?
@@randgrithr7387 How do you know you get censored? I type Israel all the time and don't get censored.
Startpage went dark and DDG was on it's way down.
Don't forget: The founder of DDG, Gabriel Weinberg, was also behind a social network called Names Database, which collected the real names and addresses of its users. He then sold Names Database for “$10 million in cash” in March 2006.
searX for the win
Thank you for this information.
What happened with Startpage?
what engines in searx do you use?
Got a reference? That's a very serious charge, especially for the founder of a site claiming privacy as a selling point.
@@MrBiwinning123 startpage is owned by System1 which are basically a advertising company. they said that nothing will change but you might not want to trust that
also, what makes you think yandex is not censoring stuff that makes ukraine look good? xDD
Notice this happens right after they start having TV ads
You know they have to "support" the next big thing so we know that they "care" and are morally superior.
"I support the "
Having friends on both sides of this conflict is very hard right now, and sometimes I just wish it were clear, but to censor everything coming out of Russia seems quite short sighted. If they are an enemy having a public completely unaware of what the Russians may be thinking is essentially letting your enemy have the high ground, especially if this evolves into a larger conflict.
Its not censored. Censoring would be removing it. It's just...harder to find.
@@apfelfreund6859 That's still censoring.
It's not about the war. They just use it as an excuse to start censoring.
@@saddoggy2440 looking at soy face of gabriel I think he is really doing it because Russia bad, Ukraine good
@@tomfahey2823 There aren't really two sides here more so then there are two sides to a mugger and a person being mugged. If one side is not interested in compromises but only their own goals at the expense of everyone else then there is nothing to deescalate. There is the option to completely surrender and give away everything, which goes against every country's core, or to stand up against the aggressor.
Your map of NATO countries seems to be either old or wrong, Czechia (that thing between Slovakia and Germany) is in NATO from 1999.
Every popular service ever when it started:
Look, we're totally not like the competing services out there. We listen to the people.
10 years later:
Actually now that we've established our business and have a good image we can do a 180.
Generally not immediate but a slow turn.
@@NawidN ya like 60 + 60 + 60 + 60 + 60 + 60 and boom a 360
@@africayean1311 that's what i do when i see a service doing this.
boom, 360 and walk away
@@happinson i dont know if you are joking but 360 is doing the exact same thing as you were doing, just spinning around to go the exact same direction.
@@yujinhikita5611 that's not how it works
We live in a world where intellectuals aren't created by the merit of their discourse, but big brains are elected as intellectuals by big tech algorithm. This is scary, because there is no algorithm for truth.
"big brains are elected as intellectuals by big tech algorithm"
What do you mean by this?
@@NawidN That if videos or articles or books you did become popular thanks to an algorithm, you don't become a renowned intellectual because you deserve it, but because of an algorithm...
Credentials are becoming more disconnected from merit as time goes on. Eventually the bubble will burst.
Also, I'm not sure where did you get the map on 6:00, but it isn't accurate: Norway, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Greece, North Macedonia, Lithuania and Estonia are also part of NATO. The last two joined in 2004 with Latvia that you did mark as a member on your map. And the distance between the Baltic states and Moscow is pretty much the same as between Ukraine and Moscow. They are even much closer to St Petersburg. Moreover, Putin starting a war forced Sweden and Finland, previously neutral countries, to think about joining the alliance (the fact that is depicted on your map). So the NATO expansion argument is invalidated by the consequences of Putin's actions.
P.S. I do agree that the new DDG rules are against what they stood for, but I think your video would be better if you would say just that
Why duck duck go this is the exact path Mozilla/Firefox went down
Nah, they didn't go THAT down
Yet
Not liking where this is going…
No more DuckDuckGo for me. Yesterday I started censoring DuckDuckGo.
Mozilla… and now DuckDuckGo
how much will the mighty fall?
@@UnixOath Browsers are a bit complicated… but you can try surf if you don’t mind not having tabs
Otherwise, try brave if you’re ok with chromium based browsers
As for search engines, there’s always searx
@@UnixOath Librewolf is good
never tried Yacy
@@UnixOath Qute + SearXNG
@@UnixOath Waterfox and Startpage if you trust the company that owns them
Who decides what is misinformation?
Who does it is irrelevant, since misinformation is objective, not subjective
The problem is the censorhip, doesn't matter what's the reason behind it
Organisations that named themselves something as "stop fake news" "propaganda info" etc. Also, big corporations never lie, that's what I read in one of top sell's newspaper about recognition of fake news.
@@rompevuevitos222 the problem of misinformation and how big it's been getting by the seconds is an excuse for bringing back censoring galore.
This was supposed to start an argument with you, wow
Not you, peasant! Not you.
The algorithm of truth!
I dont trust Yandex to use as a default but they have the best image results by far. Google reverse image search is embarrassing in comparison.
I use Yandex as a primary, but use another three for balance when searching for things likely to be biased or when the Yandex results are just too Cyrillic.
Google/Bing/DDG is just that bad.
Yandex isn't Russian owned, its Dutch isn't it?
Outsourcing the responsibility of doing quality research to others only ever leads to being misinformed. This will only end up creating more of the problem that it claims to resolve.
This isn't stopping anyone from doing quality research. The only people this effects are those who click the first result and believe everything they read.
@@CarrotConsumer that wasn't my point. My point was people in control of these platforms trying to control misinformation ultimately creates more misinformation. It's like when Facebook implimented their fact-checking system.
There will never be a way to truly elevate the burden of validating information away from the person doing the research. Yes, the only people who this affects will be those people you mentioned, but unfortunately said people make up an extremely large percentage of the global population.
My point is more directed at those who feel platform owners should be responsible for the quality of information on their platform, when in reality the responsibility has and always will be held at the individual level.
It's not about stopping anyone from doing quality research; it's about the futility of trying to make it so people don't have to worry about it at all.
@@CarrotConsumer the issue is that most people aren’t all that interested in news, so they are content with reading a few headlines from mainstream media sources, so the fight for what media sources are given this spot is what matters for information spreading
@@Motoboo_Marine i am one of theose people, and i want to revert to windows 7, and to install a custom ROM becose the notification feed in my phone glows hard (feel free to screenshot) but i am just too lazy to get a phone that is NOT injected with artifical slowdown so i buy a new phone. windows shows news feeds in the windows menu and when opening a browser, and so does it show news when you open a browser. dude i do not want "windows approved" stuff in my face. just no.
@@jackspedicy2711 I know you just said you're lazy, but please take the time to look into the settings for both your phone and Windows. You can disable virtually all of those news.
if they're doing this for helping Ukraine, then why not for Palestine?
Too close to the owners 😉
Russia still dangerous for the west. At least I don‘t recall Palestine blocking NATO expansion.
Ukraine got part of their territory annezed by Russia back in 2014 (Crimean annexation). Ukraine has very good reasons to want to join NATO. Also NATO basically only exists so that Russia doesn't invade small countries
Hey there, I'm your subscriber from Russia, I found your channel around 2 months ago. Just wanted to say thanks for staying neutral on the topic of current wаr. I don't support the wаr myself, but it sucks to see so many people in the west just non-stop sh*tting on Russia, thanks for not being one of them.
Also sorry if my viewership doesn't bring you ad revenue
He is wrong for justifying it though. Russia is clearly the bad guy. He is justifying murder of thousands
I think Putan is the problem, not Russia.
Hope he gets deposed.
@@maridiancrest243 did we watch the same video ? Explaining reasons for something is not the same as justifying it.
@@maridiancrest243 u r reffering to the military and putin rt?
Why not shit on Russia, if Russia constantly shits on others?
RIP
Now we need an update on your suggestions for alternative search engines.
While at first it might look like a good idea, this opens a very dangerous door.
The matter of disinformation is still an unsolved issue though; while censorship can serve to keep you from learning the truth, wide swaths of the population have revealed themselves to be unable to recognize the truth even when it hits them in the face...
You take care of that with a decebt education system. To this day I dont know what americans learn at school.... one of the core skills is to be able to properly analyse sources in media and properly get your info
That will never ever be solved ever.
@@fgsaramago Critical thinking skills got nyxed in the curriculum at least a decade ago, 30+ years for colleges and universities. Only small town rural schools still have any semblance of sanity to them.
Disinformation principle #1: It's always the others doing Disinformation. Joking apart, it sounds like the beginning of the end for Duckduckgo.
I hate Putin as much as the next bloke, but the amount of censorship i want in my search engine is absolutely 0, no more, no less
Why? I mean why do you hate someone you’ve never met?
@@macktheripper7454 journos said to
@@_zigger_ It's staggeringly stupid how many people genuinely believe others can't form opinions about geopolitics on their own. This guy is saying censorship is bad, why are you just believing what he says instead of thinking for yourself?
See how fucking stupid that sounds?
The trouble being that the engine's bias itself is a form of censorship. Even without censorship baked in,.No matter what, they will display ranked results according to an algorithm and that will create a bias towards a certain category of information.
There was a proposed feature in a search engine by Brave that never got made that allowed you to self regulate what information will be shown to you; allowing you to hide what YOU determine to be misinformation. That does allow you to build an echo chamber but at least you're in control.
@@RottenFishbone Yeah but that algorithm depends on the people that use it, this is deliberate tampering of that
Respect man. Also props for mentioning oil in the equation.
time to find another search engine.... sad, for one side it's kinda refreshing to see a big tech company admitting the shenanigans, but by the other side, it's always a big red flag when a company starts to virtude signaling, gg time to find an alternative.
tell me what alternative you find
@@leprechaunsh3938 Bump
@@leprechaunsh3938 I've heard of Qwant. Here for more suggestions as well
What are the alternatives are you thinking about? Startpage? Brave Search seems fairly new :/
ecosia
"There are no friends or enemies, only permanent interests" - Sun Tzu
Did he actually say that?
Although I agree with censorship being bad I also have to point out that your take on the whole Russia is just defending itself part is an example of you not really understanding the situation.
Yes, Russian state media presented "facts" are more of then than not false information and used for psychological warfare and thus should be restricted the same way guns are(at least in civilized cultures) restricted in the name of general wellbeing.
This is a slippery slope into restricting actual facts and as such needs more thought put into it as to how to deal with this properly but just letting someone keep flooding the web with false information (that sadly a lot of people seem to take as truth) is not a good option in the long run.
FYI the whole Russia is defending itself narrative brakes down as soon as you realize that NATO has never posed any attacking threat to Russia, only posed a threat to Russian expansionism.
And understanding that the nations that were part of USSR (unwillingly, as most of them were) wanting protection from such expansion is what drove them into NATO not some US led conspiracy to destroy Russia.
It's like people forget that the oppressive soviet union existed only a few decades ago, never really disappeared, and their leader today is literally a KGB agent.
Plus you don't just invade a whole different sovreign nation just for YOUR interests
Mate, your morals and ethics are on point w.r.t. this issue. Every culture have their nuances. Playing God with them is just plain stupid. Minding one's own business is something first world nations have to learn.
I find it odd how many people get offended over your statement. They'll also say stupid shit like how non-White nations need to be controlled because the people are too inferior to control their nations. White people kill each other all the time and fight over stupid shit, as Russia and Ukraine shows. And the US being the world's police actually proves the irony of a rich country not being morally superior to anyone else.
@@yeahgirl11 As an American I wish we could just stay out of everyone else's business and worry about what's going on here for a change.
Found the math prof.
Man has always tried to play god
@@tels9243 This only happened because of how much Joe Biden bolstered the Russian government. See what happens when we dont stay out of shit?
I knew something like this was going to happen.
I was in the car and the radio played MULTIPLE duck duck go ads within just an hour.
I was like "uhhhhh where are they getting this money?"
Well, you see, Ukraine's president is known to be a Zionist with dual citizenship and DDG is owned by a tiny hat tribe member. It all makes sense now.
@@hypnotised-clover yeah...sure. I've seen your other comments and I am unsure if you are joking or not.
@@alexxans1154 Cry about it.
@@hypnotised-clover so you were joking. You almost had me I will admit.
@@alexxans1154 did you not hear the CEO’s name?
You got me on the 🦆 recently. On to Brave I guess
This is anguishing, there is seriously no one we can turn to, at any level
We have no one but ourselves, individuality is the greatest ally.
It's not the end of the world
@@mycelia_ow No, but you can see it from here
@@mycelia_ow shouldn't you be imbibing some fungus rn?
super n00bis swisscows and searx. And if those fail us too... well, I guess curl never let us down did it?
"blonde braids"
I don't know why I'm still even surprised about this at this point
I think it's funny. "Oh, no opinionated search results, look at what Yandex does." *has only white people instead of only black people* lmao
@@LanHikari90 It looks like you can actually refine your search on Yandex to get results with black people, trying to refine the search to get results with white people on google or bing resulted in no change at all
shame on western search engines for censoring our aryan queens
amounts of logic flips in this video is astonishing
I'm pretty sure they didn't magically develop a truth-algorithm, they are simply going to rank information coming from known Russian assets/associates lower. Something that's not terribly hard to figure out.
"this reminds me of the book by George Orwell called 1984"
"never read it, but I imagine it was kind of like this"
What’s with this guy and yandex?
Fsb agent
"Weinberg"
Every. Single. Time.
Exactly
Holy fuck, Outlaw you're the first person I've had say a based isolationist take, literally everyone is getting so easily manipulated by american propaganda. Thank you for being one person to actually not be controlled.
Sounds more like you've been brainwashed by russian propaganda. The west isn't just big bad America. Stick to watching cartoons.
I don't support either side, stop letting yourselves be controlled like sheep. Neither side winning will be good overall. We're both nuclear powers and none of us here have the luxury of having a fancy bunker beneath our homes
@@r0e404 false equivalences don't make you smart, they are very much part of the russian propaganda machine. The west is by far a better place to be. Stop talking like you know anything about the real world when you watch cartoons all day.
Generally I would agree with you but the lack of familiarity with a different culture is a non factor here, you're not there to dictate who's going to govern the state, you're there at the request of another sovereign country to defend it, it's very different from invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq or whatever other example you're comparing it to. Quite different stories, this is a plain invasion and the western countries are engaged at the request of democratically elected Ukrainian government that represents the Ukrainian people and their will.
@@altr9666 Your whole comment is just unnecessary whataboutism.
My comment was about how comparing Ukrainian situation to Afghanistan or Iraq is a false comparison. Move on.
@@ararune3734 theres no such thing as "whataboutism". Invoking it just nakes americans look dumb, its like when americans invoke other excuses like "racism" to avoid responding to something. Simply not a valid argument
@@fgsaramago Yes it is, it falls under the category of tu quoque logical fallacy. Educate yourself plebeian.
Fuk off with the Americans already, will you both? I'm not American, either address the things I talked about or move on, this is not a place for your rants.
Once again you're using a logical fallacy, just because Americans are guilty of something, it doesn't excuse you for doing the same. Or do you think Americans are the supreme role model and the authority?
Recently Coinbase started blocking russian wallets
companies actually ruin the idea of privacy and confidentiality
thats pretty common now
How could a KYC-compliant exchange possibly be private?
Secure, sure. Private? No way.
Dont use exchanges.
Weinberg... there's something about that last name. Something suspicious about it.
Why is it that anyone with a last name ending in "berg" or "stein" is always in favor of censorship? Who nose, must be a Cohencidence
When God's chosen people are sus! 😳
The cartoon rubbing his hands on the video thumbnail... Kenny is /ourguy/, for sure.
_[Kirby's "Item Bounce" echoes in the distance]_
@@VladTepesVEVO yep, just check the onlyfans vid he did a few months ago.
I'm glad to see there are still voices of reason. Nice videos, ty for content.
I'm using DuckDuckGo for years. After seeing the tweet, I'm switching to a different search engine, probably Yendex as the video suggests. Thank you, Mental Outlaw.
I heard people using brave. I will use both. Well, I already use yandex for reverse image search as they are superior to everything else.
/pol/ is always right.
4:05
Mental Outlow: i prefer to stay neutral especially when we're dealing with cultures we know nothing about
also Mental Outlow: *proceeds to talk for 7 minutes how russians are completely justified in attacking ukraine*
This is probably the dumbest comment on this video. The justification for their invasion has virtually nothing to do with “differences in culture”
The news is on ukraine's side so I don't trust anything they say. 🤔 Also because the emotional manipulation is disgusting. 😾 I have a theory that the UN is gonna try a "safety police" or try to sell one world gov because of this... My gut says somethings off, and I have been learning to trust myself more and more.
@@frankmerker630 are you stupid? point is, he says "invasion of iraq" is bad because "they don't know the culture", but somehow it doesn't apply when he's talking about ukraine?
@@fatcat5817 gee, i wonder why they are on ukraine's side! i don't know, maybe EMPATHY? a sense of JUSTICE?
"emotional manipulation" literally get out. people don't die there just to score "symphathy points", they die because THEY'RE INVADED.
what's next, your gut says vaccines are bad?
Best comment right here.
Excellent points. Seems a lot of these companies born in the USA have forgotten the principles that allowed them to be strong companies. Things like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association.
US Big Tech is committing suicide with their propensity for becoming political.
😂🤣. Thats not what anyone thinks when they think of the US. They thing warmongering and brainwashing
@@fgsaramago this lol. america was never free but somehow ameritards believed it during the golden age. no wonder they called it the american DREAM
@@fgsaramago Only in the recent past and driven by the same people who dislike freedom. But hey, one mans warmonger is another mans champion. 😀
@@Mr.Riojas sure, in the more distant past the US was doing great while it was genociding the indians or having a civil war because it wanted to be the last country in the world to still have slavery. Some great job there
I'm disappointed in DuckDuckGo.
Truth should be decided with livestreamed Yu-Gi-Oh duels.
"I'm an isolationist" - Mental Outlaw once again proving to be the most based man in America
would he have been an isolationist during ww2 as well? because i can't seem to say that isolationist is based, sometimes it can be lazy and negligent
@@thomas.thomas well yeah. I dont care.
In today's climate being isolationist is a pretty normie stance. Full colonial/expansionist would be the real based take today.
Only based man in America
@@thomas.thomas That would have been a based option, yes. Tho if America had stuck to isolationism and not intervened in WW1 and subsequently forced its Wilsonian insanity on Europe there possibly wouldn't have been a WW2 to intervene in anyway.
Hopefully with enough backlash they reconsider this deicision.
At this point it hardly matters. Now we know that their values are not what they claim, so why trust them?
@ True... I guess I'm just coping because I've been using DDG for a while and didn't want to see it become this.
There is the end for them. You can longer trust.
Start using SearX now
@@PefectPiePlace2 can you specify these kind of topics?
Kenny spitting so much facts that I need a cooking video
I'm no expert, but the map you showed when talking about nato was wrong (or just not trying to represent nato members). I'm not sure what the green color of Sweden and Finland is supposed to represent but other than that several countries that are part of nato (according to nato's website) weren't in yellow: Iceland (which is one of the founding countries), Norway (also one of the founding countries), Estonia, Lithuania, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia, North Macedonia and Greece.
The whole tirade abot nato made no sense to begin with. Nato membership of ukraine has nothing to do with this, not even the russians present it as one of the main reasons. Its quite parhetic that americans and american media is desperatelybtrying to make the situation in some way be about them
This guy is enraged me a lot, from today i start using yandex as protest
yandex is potentially worse tho
lol why?
@@rompevuevitos222 Their reverse image search is better than anyone elses tho.
I particularly hate how smug he is about it, like he thinks people will agree with and updoot his tweet
Time to start looking for a new go-to search engine
Brave Search.
SearX
I personaly just roll dice anytime I have a question. The results arent the best but it does the job most of the time.
>berg
Well can't say it was unexpected
That may be so but Ukraine has been asking for our help whereas a lot of the times when the US gets involved, they either don't ask or actively ask us not to get involved.
This is one of my favorite tech channels. You got hecka' technical chops, humor, sarcasm, etc,. I love the stuff you put together. Thanks
"You were the chosen one! It was said you would destroy the censorship, not join them!"
Last time an European country invaded another one was September 1st, 1939. We have a pretty much similar situation, but with 6000+ nuclear warhead on the other side. The rest of the arguments that Russia is acting in its best interest is simplistic and in many way infantile. That being said, EU sensorship of RT and Sputnik was a stupidity. And this move of DuckDuckGo is equally stupid.
Well said
It was?? Youre forgetting a lot of invasions between there and now. Georgia was invaded by Russia as recently as 2008. Azerbaijan and Armenia invade each other on the daily
So thinking Russia acting on its own best interest is infantile? So the opinion that western media heavily implies that Russia is basically evil is what then?
Honestly DDG search was always shit for me. This just hammers down the last nail in the coffin.
Agreed. If you show me bloody lemurs instead of blessed procyonids when I search for ringtails, you do not have my respect. (Yes, I'm biased, but what can I say?)
As a Long Time DuckDuckGo User. Im not Happy.
The rest of the world did not act like this towards us when we invade(s) the middle east. Banning Russian cats is insane.
"I'm an isolationist, we shouldn't get involved in foreign affairs" BASED BLACK MAN BASED BLACK MAN
BASED BLACK MAN
sure that works. I guess the war isn't anywhere close to you in America, so you can just go with the cop-out position of "we don't care who's in the right, we don't wanna do anything", sure that works
Don't come crying if Putin attacks NATO and makes this everyone's problem.
Dont care, just want to grill
@@ilonachan well if US was more isolationist a decade or two ago none of this would happen
@@ilonachan - Actually, the US not being isolationist is what is causing most of the problems, including this one.
In a sense, you could argue that those sanctions are pretty much the same as DRM: meant to protect the legitimate customer, but only the legitimate customer is harmed when push comes to shove.
Most Sanctions are quite ridiculous. I guess it's an effective way to ensure that the message is heard, as more and more Russians are protesting against the government now, yet it must just be saddening for Russians to see them being punished for having done nothing wrong and not deciding to have a war.. Many, MANY oppose it, so I see why some sanctions really go above and beyond...
In the end of the day, the people are the backbone of the economy, as much as western corporations are WESTERN corporations, they still pay taxes to Russia if stationed in Russia, hence western corporations pulling out of Russia harms the people of Russia, but also limits the money the Russian government has, for example on military spending.
@@ErikUden These sanctions have a completely opposite effect. They do not affect the vast majority of russians, only the handful of them, who already don't really support Russian government, making them wonder "wtf I did to deserve this, looks like western democracies punish me for being Russian, just like Putin says!". Not to mention that pro-government russians were quick to remind everyone about Yugoslavia and how NATO enforced humanitarian bombings of Sarajevo.
And one other thing, guess who'll jump right into Russian market, taking every opportunity to occupy every niche possible? China.
Xi and Pu are big friends nowadays. It's a bit scary that China is way more active near Taiwan than usual, if they take it, boom.
@@user_imyarek if I were the Chinese gov right now I'd be pushing HARD for my companies to barge into the Russian market. I'll get both russian money and more influence in Russia.
@@user_imyarek Yeah, as I said, I agree with you.
@@fedyx1544 Chinese "companies" are owned or controlled by the government. They dont need to push anything, just to give the orders
>See thumbnail
>Lookup tweet
>See ratio
>Regain faith in humanity
So what search engine should i use?
I only regret that I have but one thumbs-up to give for this video.