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Flip this around:

There are at the very least billions of possible search term refinements and pieces of content which are not currently actively suggested. Is your position that, because they are not being suggested at this moment, they are being censored?

The suggestions are being computed by an algorithm. If you take things away from those it's censorship.

The algorithm was designed to do certain things.

Does this mean it's censoring the things it wasn't designed to do?

(there's no way to claim that changing the algorithm would be censorship without acknowledging that the algorithm already censors things)

And who designed the algorithm?

curation != censorship.

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