We know very well that CC blocks several sites that seem to have content that they consider objectionable, and well we've been living with it. But I just discovered this, courtesy Harish:
Try switching Google SafeSearch OFF (Go to Advanced Search on your Google homepage) and then search for something adult.
I tried - have a look!
Try searching yourself, and you will see that despite your OFF setting, it activates Strict SafeSearch while delivering results. Now, I clicked on the link on the search results page and selected OFF again and I still got censored results. Surprisingly, I got normal results when I repeated this thrice, but Harish tried to do the same, and it's not happening.
This is not restricted to Google. I tried Bing, and while their SafeSearch does not manage to hide much when you use the same term as for Google (something we can attribute to their incompetence rather than CCs benevolence), I went to their settings page and saw this:
Can CC actually implement this? I have no idea, frankly. But, since the Indian Government is certainly not doing this, I have to conclude CC is. In which this is setting a very terrible precedent indeed.
6 people weren't lazy:
Shocking, indeed. But I don't think CC is doing it. It may be some bug in the google thingy itself..
There are tools that can be used very easily to force implement SafeSearch. Anyhow, we will ask Prof Karandikar directly and find out the whole story.
You do not need to search for anything adult to see that strict SafeSearch cannot be deactivated. :P
It does turn off if you do it thrice, I just tried.
You dont need to be exploring safe search for searching anything adult. Antariksh might have other more common motives.
Are... it's just some browser issue.
If you use Mozilla - didn't work for me after many trials (didn't work even in Sarjan's home)
Google Chrome Stable - 3 trials
Google Chrome Unstable - 1 trial !
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