It’s just so offensive they think they should control what I’m exposed to. Creepy and offensive. Google has lost its mission of making the worlds information accessible in a fresh, horrible way. Tragic.
I understand Google feeling compelled to remove extreme and illegal content, but this is not that. Google removed them for political and/or moral reasons. DuckDuckGo let me find the website and form my own opinions. Imagine how many other websites Google is withholding for political and moral reasons? How much of our general knowledge is now carefully shaped and curated by Google, because that's what they allow us to see?
I also moved to DuckDuckGo. A search engine which removes the things you're looking for "for your protection" is no search engine at all.
In my opinion, they are merely complying to these pressures. Google is not being threatened to be regulated by Proud Boys nor is it likely that Proud Boys members have some dirt on their executives. So, they have no reason to remove Proud Boys from their search engine from their business perspective. Therefore the only reason can be that someone who has power over them tells them what to do.
There’s others like it that are also censored. First result for “Fake face masks” on DuckDuckGo.
I'm glad they've been de-platformed. Good riddance!
We have millennia of practical examples of the fact that ceding the power to speak will always hurt us all in the end. It will eventually be used to silence you and whatever you believe is moral and just. This is why we must be willing to accept speech we don't like. Especially speech we don't like, because that's the speech which is removed first.
You don't want child porn on television at 7pm, do you?
You know the difference between "the terrorists will get us" and "wear a mask to help protect others"? Only the second one is based in fact. Just because you refuse to believe such doesn't change this.