SinAdjetivos
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world
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Post #4384212
I thought the issue you had was with the information itself. Why does it “being a program” matter? That said, it is; “symptom checker” specifically and “page rank” more generally. its too much of the wild west And? There seems to be this assumption that “wild West” == bad/dangerous/scary/harmful. The modern Internet is certainly far less of the “wild West” it used to be. I would also argue it is also far more dangerous, harmful and nefarious than the “wild West” web. the amount of peopl...
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Post #4360458
If that was the logic we were using then Wikipedia shouldn’t be allowed to have articles on health and law either. WebMD shouldn’t have ever been legal either. Obviously, the benefits to having that information available outweigh the hypothetical negatives. Even with them being incorrect, partial and easy to draw invalid conclusions from, having the information be freely and readily accessible is better for everyone.