Gatekeepers

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Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s
Uploaded on May 2, 2011
http://www.ted.com As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
Read our community Q&A with Eli (featuring 10 ways to turn off the filter bubble): http://on.ted.com/PariserQA

[Horn]

You should see the difference from down here in Costa Rica and Spanish vs. English searches.

The searches are most of the time completely different.

[VX1]

Only nine minutes long? Darn, I was hoping for a least another hour of this Jew “activist” traitor telling me how to educate myself and find truth online. I suppose it would be A-OK with him if I just got all my information about the world from MSNBC.