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Choomguy 13 points ago +13 / -0

I remember when you could find anything on the Internet, that was the beauty of it.

Now i go to look up things from a few years ago, and they are gone. Eg, a few years ago, someone was saying that asians are higher IQ than whites. When i googled it i was surprised to find graphs of intelligence by race, including blacks and latinos. It was interesting stuff. And if you look at the overlays amongst the races, it illustrated to me why for example, asians excel in stem professions. It was all research papers and professional journals, legit stuff. You cant find them now. Now what you find are sources explaining that all the past research is wrong, and goes on to explain flaws in intelligence tests.

The internet kinda sucks now.

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Arcynic 11 points ago +11 / -0

We failed as a people to recognize that the greatest source of information the world had ever seen could also become the greatest source of misinformation the world had ever seen if not protected.

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npbreakthr0ugh 1 point ago +1 / -0

Internet is the sum of all human knowledge, the problem is, it tends to reflect the age and maturity of its average user, I would say Myspace was the end of the internet's childhood and we are now near the end of its teenage years, its rebellious and does stupid shit all the time

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Bianceziwo 6 points ago +6 / -0

Theyre on the internet, just not on Google

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10MeV 1 point ago +1 / -0

Good point. I've been using startpage.com lately, which seems pretty unfiltered.

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zhalias 5 points ago +5 / -0

You should try Duckduckgo. Been using it for a few years now, since I realized the extent that my google searches were being censored and filtered to remove wrongthink. Started using DDG and never looked back.

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10MeV 1 point ago +1 / -0

DDG has been my main search engine for a couple of years now. Even it was not showing me returns I expected to see. I wish I could remember the specific search, but I was impressed with what startpage returned compared to all the others.

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Skogin 4 points ago +4 / -0

Books are good. One of them is titled, “The Bell Curve”. Solid work, so naturally it has been perpetually scorned since publication.

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FreeBased1 3 points ago +3 / -0

Good book. A big book, but good!