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so called piracy is bad according to what western society's moral and legal values are. That should be sufficient clear to anyone remotely familiar with the topic. It is a bias compared to technical discussion on where the result showing in the ranking of specific search engine on a purely technical view.

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I think the key here is that it is bad according to society's legal norms, rather than any "socio-political norms". I think it is absolutely justifiable that Google filters based on legal norms, given that it is a company operating under a given legal system (or multiple). If the result was purely "technical" it would need to show a lot of content that you don't want it to show.

The legal norms obviously originate from socio-political norms and moreover law is literally political, so the scare quotes are quite unnecessary.

At first I misread "piracy" as "privacy" in your comment. It still checked out.

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