| ▲ | BrenBarn 3 hours ago | |
> I think that Google gives the average person exactly the results they want. There is some truth in this, but to me it's similar to saying that a drug dealer gives their customers exactly what they want. People "want" those things because Google and its ilk have conditioned them to want those things. | ||
| ▲ | sdenton4 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
On the one hand, a search engine is not heroin... It's a pretty broken analogy. On the other hand, we could probably convince Cory Doctorow to write a piece about how fentanyl is really about the enshitification of opiates. | ||