PdF 2010 | Eli Pariser: Filter Bubble, or How Personalization is Changing the Web

Eli Pariser, the president of MoveOn.org, answered the PdF 2010 question "Can the Internet Fix Politics" with a warning about how the hidden personalization features of search and newsfeeds were subtly destroying the notion of a common public space.

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[mushroomjesus]

I'm waiting for a new browser to come up... I accept that Google is F'd up, but when is the new web browser that is structured as google used be going to show up?

[Thom Holland]

The guy introducing Eli would be a better speaker if he would you less uhm, ahs, ands and take his hands out of his pockets. Same goes for Eli. Toastmasters! The same can be said for Eli.

[Thom Holland]

The guy introducing Eli would be a better speaker if he would you less uhm, ahs, ands and take his hands out of his pockets. Same goes for Eli. Toastmasters!

[SophieOcean]

anyway its how americans think, all alike i have benein american forums and they do not accept anyone thinking diferently than they do so they cl you a troll and ban oyu or harrass oyu as hell and cal you a retard. americna jsut have to get an upgrade and man up a bit! grow up! amd get better general knoledgre and ability ot think on yoru own. thats soemthing you have ot learn not something oyu are born with!

[SophieOcean]

think google is sh.it in general cause they spoion oyu everywhere evne oyu dont want them in yoru forum and thats nasty and lame and mean they are the secret police and you cant even decisd to blockhtem out like by blockign their IP so they cant enter yoru forum ad thats realy a low.

i have never seen filterign of infos on facebook i odnt even know waht the guy mean by that.

[SophieOcean]

he has as alone orove the expl of 2 of his friends who are similar but no tale on if they did their research at the same time and using what firewall and what internet browser as well as antivirus who are all an element of filtering infos and data in general.

[SophieOcean]

DID HE ACTUALLY TIRED OT HAVBE 100 OR AT LEKAST 20 PERSONS DONG TH SAME SEARCH AT THE SAME TIME WHO HAD FAR DIFFERENT VIEW POINTS AND LOCATIONS, SO TO SEE IF HIS THEROY WAS TRIE OR IF IT WAS ONY I HIS IMAGINATION?

looks like the guy is just blabling.

[huskywich]

Ugh most of the tweets were outside of Iran. The data infrastructure was not sufficient for the claims.

[huskywich]

Polarization is just a perception. Humans have never been more aligned and homogeneous.