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===Embrace of Google-style censorship===

===Embrace of Google-style censorship===

In March 2022, DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg announced that he would begin censoring and suppressing searches on the search engine - akin to what Google does - based on [[disinformation|false liberal claims of "Russian disinformation"]] and [[liberal censorship|labeling of content that liberals do not like]] as such;<ref name="DuckDuckGo">[https://welovetrump.com/2022/03/10/duckduckgo-ceo-announces-censorship-scheme-of-content-labeled-russian-disinformation/ DuckDuckGo CEO Announces Censorship Scheme of Content Labeled “Russian Disinformation”]</ref> Weinberg dodged questions from outraged DuckDuckGo users on Twitter by making flimsy excuses for his actions (while in a ''[[New York Times]]'' hit piece which smeared DuckDuckGo users as "conspiracy theorists", Weinberg admitted that he now uses his search engine as a scraper of results from the [[Microsoft]]-owned [[Bing]] search engine and that his company now acts as a snitch for Bing, as well as discriminating for employment with the company based on race and sexual preference while disregarding work experience and merit<ref name="DuckDuckGo"/>), but the backlash against Weinberg caving in to the liberal [[SJW]] crowd and "[[wokeness]]" was swift and massive, with Twitter respondents denouncing and disavowing DuckDuckGo for Weinberg's actions, with plans to switch to alternative search engines such as [[Brave]]'s search engine.<ref>[https://welovetrump.com/2022/03/10/you-go-woke-you-go-broke-duckduckgo-tanks-its-brand-with-a-few-tweets/ You Go Woke You Go Broke: DuckDuckGo TANKS Its Brand With A Few Tweets]</ref>

In March 2022, DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg announced that he would begin censoring and suppressing searches on the search engine - akin to what Google does - based on [[disinformation|false liberal claims of "Russian disinformation"]] and [[liberal censorship|labeling of content that liberals do not like]] as such,<ref name="DuckDuckGo">[https://welovetrump.com/2022/03/10/duckduckgo-ceo-announces-censorship-scheme-of-content-labeled-russian-disinformation/ DuckDuckGo CEO Announces Censorship Scheme of Content Labeled “Russian Disinformation”]</ref> which has resulted in the censoring and suppression of conservative content and the banning of the [[Gateway Pundit]] news site based on those false claims;<ref>Two references:

*[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/10/diet-google-duckduckgo-will-down-rank-what-it-decides-is-disinformation/ Diet Google: DuckDuckGo Will ‘Down-Rank’ What It Decides Is ‘Disinformation’] at Breitbart News Network</ref> Weinberg dodged questions from outraged DuckDuckGo users on Twitter by making flimsy excuses for his actions (while in a ''[[New York Times]]'' hit piece which smeared DuckDuckGo users as "conspiracy theorists", Weinberg admitted that he now uses his search engine as a scraper of results from the [[Microsoft]]-owned [[Bing]] search engine and that his company now acts as a snitch for Bing, as well as discriminating for employment with the company based on race and sexual preference while disregarding work experience and merit<ref name="DuckDuckGo"/>), but the backlash against Weinberg caving in to the liberal [[SJW]] crowd and "[[wokeness]]" was swift and massive, with Twitter respondents denouncing and disavowing DuckDuckGo for Weinberg's actions, with plans to switch to alternative search engines such as [[Brave]]'s search engine.<ref>[https://welovetrump.com/2022/03/10/you-go-woke-you-go-broke-duckduckgo-tanks-its-brand-with-a-few-tweets/ You Go Woke You Go Broke: DuckDuckGo TANKS Its Brand With A Few Tweets]</ref>

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