[scrps]

It's wild how the West collectively looked down on China for years over its censorship of search engines, only to suddenly dive headfirst into the same illiberal playbook

It is monkey see, monkey do with the political and monied sets. And to think they see themselves as more evolved than the "plebs", Gotta find the humor in it at least.

[Cthulhu_]

It was also intentionally ignorant, as even then western search engines and websites had their own "censorship" and the like already.

And I think that's fine. I don't want a zero censorship libertarian free for all internet. I don't want a neutral search engine algorithm, not least of all because that would be even easier to game than the existing one.