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   Blake Leonard (blake@infosec.town)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 04:54:50 JST Blake Leonard

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   It was a real shame, too, since up to a couple days ago it was supposedly a good quality, somewhat spam-fighting, ad-free, independent-supporting search engine. Now it comes out they're paying bigots and thinking that's not a political statement, and my support for them vanished.
   
   I was almost considering paying for it!

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     Blake Leonard (blake@infosec.town)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 04:54:51 JST Blake Leonard

     • Seirdy

     #Kagi picked its side: it's a search engine for the alt-right. It has done so by refusing to listen to subscribers who are endangered (!!!) by their decision, by playing the AI card some time back, and by refusing to do remotely the right thing in other scenarios (i.e. fighting COVID misinformation).
     
     Not to mention, declaring COVID or gay rights "political" is a tell tale sign that you're closeted right wing. Which is what the founder did. He's no different from Eich, he just doesn't want to admit it.
     
     @Seirdy was the shining beacon of ethics and reason in that thread. I love and appreciate that they framed it as a business growth decision, something that they could maybe understand, but unfortunately it seems like they decided queer folk are not their intended audience.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.