{"id":30110,"date":"2019-08-16T00:23:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=30110"},"modified":"2019-08-16T00:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:23:56","slug":"the-censorship-from-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/08\/16\/the-censorship-from-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Censorship from Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

The popular DuckDuckGo search-engine’s ‘safe search’ mode censors one result from the following search…<\/p>\n

site:http:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/writings\/texts\/fiction\/ pleasure<\/em><\/p>\n

This should find all instances of the word “pleasure” in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

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On close comparison the censored item turns out to be the unremarkable round-robin story “The Challenge from Beyond”<\/a> (1935), which DuckDuckGo appears to think is adult content and blocks. I can only assume this may be because the phrase “naked fundamentals” and “physical delights” occur near to “pleasure”…<\/p>\n

With the honesty possible only when life is stripped to its naked fundamentals, he realized that he remembered with pleasure only the physical delights of his former life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This line is also the highlighted snippet in the Duck’s search results. <\/p>\n

In this case we can’t blame Bing, a main upstream provider for DuckDuckGo and possibly the worst of the big search engines. Since Bing can’t handle a site:<\/em> search at that level of URL specificity. Nor does Bing block “The Challenge from Beyond” with its own Safe Search on and a trimmed-back URL. <\/p>\n

Nor does anything untoward happen with the far more worthy Russian search-engine Yandex, the Duck’s other main upstream provider.<\/p>\n

The conclusion must be that the Duck is implementing its own dumb censorship filter based on keywords and phrases. Something to bear in mind if you’re using it to site: search www.hplovecraft.com\/writings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The popular DuckDuckGo search-engine’s ‘safe search’ mode censors one result from the following search… site:http:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/writings\/texts\/fiction\/ pleasure This should find all …<\/p>\n

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