Facebook and Google / Secret Revealed

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[thedynamix]

@SkillGrip LOLz.. What you talking about!!? His political standpoint was merely an example relevant to his argument. Politics nor socio-economics has nothing to with this. He's simply saying that filtering what we see based on what we have previously chosen to see, rather than the WHOLE picture is simply not the point of the internet. His closing speech summed this up perfectly.. It's fine if you want to do that, but empower us with the controls to alter this ourselves. Simple and fair, no??

[ladyofnewroses]

Filtering to sell to us or point us to what we might like to see and hear could lead to filtering info by some entity other than the benevolent Almighty Google. It's a useful tool to sell ideology, control and manipulate the masses, or as in the documentary, "Erasing David," to hunt you down. Web profiling is a double-edged sword—one many of us have happily fallen on whenever we join a social network site. (Sorry, SkillGrip, I think politics & socioeconomics is at play here in the long run.)

[kiwifashion]

The bombarding ad's on both google and utube were annoying more than any, so now use startpage as my search engine and no more bomb-ass ad's ...

[jkinabru]

I like half of what this guy had to say. The facts were great but he lost me when he conceded to ask for the gatekeepers to be smarter at deciding what we see and hear. How about you leave the flow of information alone completely? Now that's a noble thought. Last I checked I knew how to change a channel and think for myself. Thanks

[NewDayDawning2012]

Excellent! Thank you very much for highlighting this insidious and very dangerous trend. Namaste.

[ctjournals]

this is absolute right.. this is keeps going on, the internet will not open doors to the world, but rather opening doors to your neighborhood only..

[mykimtube]

They say we create our own reality.

;)

[luamoonluna]

well done!

[popcornality]

like if you searched "egypt" after watching this

[ENDAMERICASOON]

I notice that shit here too. YOUTUBE!

[joelsorsater]

Does anyone know the name of the guy speeking?

[DesignTutorialsAV]

or... you could use firefox's private browser or add &pws=0; after your search in the url and hit enter again. Both the above will render a non-personalized search....