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Bing censor Neocities personal websites/pages Here the news: per se it's nothing special, a search engine decide not to index/show a large batch of websites, but the meaning is much more relevant. The further we progress, the more we see FLOSS projects emerging to provide freedom of expression, while the giants try to strip it away, no longer just by creating walled gardens for their services, but by actively hiding the rest of the world, the free world, from those inside. Initially, censorship targeted email. Anyone running their own mail server on a domestic IP, something perfectly legal and once common among many techies, is blocked by the giants; my private emails simply don't reach those using GMail, YMail, and so on. If a GMail user writes to me, my replies are flagged as SPAM, even if they aren't spam at all. This hasn't been very visible because most people don't know anyone with a private email address or a even a personal domain name; emails also aren't that easy to host despite efforts to create “easy-deploy” solutions. From there, censorship has only escalated, while attempts are made to fix the absurdity of communication systems that only talk to themselves, whereas with email or Usenet everyone can talk to everyone else, platforms like WA or FB Messenger only talk to themselves. Trying to “fix” this means peering between them and only them, to continue OWNING their users, isolating them from the rest of the world and ensuring their enslavement through the herd effect; quite simply, many people I know have WA and nothing else, and since I don't have it, they pressure me to install it. This news is just one of the latest events in a long chain of the erasure of personal ownership (you live on lease on someone else's platform), of free expression (the giants censor, you can only publish what they want, and it will appear in the search results of others exactly where they decide), and ultimately, of the free world. This is why, even though the unity that once existed in the FLOSS world is missing today, and the bulk of developers no longer know how to design architectures, having been trained as high-ranking code monkeys rather than with a big-picture vision, it is more necessary than ever to own your own tools and push this model, rejecting slavery while there is still room to do so.