Are you saying that since un-skewed results ARE an alternative available to those who put in the extra effort to find them, it's not a problem that they're hidden away and the vast majority of people will never see them because of curated results allegedly based on their history?
Feeding confirmation biases is just as corrupt and more dangerous than flat out lying. A lie can be challenged and disproven by rational people who care to blow the dust off their brains and use them. An impression is an ethereal thing that lurks in your subconscious and picks away at you on an emotional, gut level.
I'm pro-Trump, which means that "based on my search history" all I get to see is "Trump is evil, according to all our top evilologists."
If I weren't aware of the manipulation and actively looking for it, all those "hey, you eat pickles? Trump may have tried to murder a pickle once. Hey, you drink coffee? Here's how we feel Trump will ban all beverages by 2021. Hey, you have a family? Trump raped your entire family multiple times back when you were in high school, according to our rapists familiar with his thinking!" feedback to simple searches?
That deluge of results would have me thinking "Well... I still don't disagree with his policies or methods, but... you know, it's just something about the guy that rubs me the wrong way and makes me think he is the sort of guy who has murdered pickles, banned drinking water, and repeatedly raped my children before they were born. You know? Just this powerful impression I get of the guy, somehow."
So what do you think their curated search results look like, tailored to their proclivities, and how that feeds back into their TDS?
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Are you saying that since un-skewed results ARE an alternative available to those who put in the extra effort to find them, it's not a problem that they're hidden away and the vast majority of people will never see them because of curated results allegedly based on their history?
Feeding confirmation biases is just as corrupt and more dangerous than flat out lying. A lie can be challenged and disproven by rational people who care to blow the dust off their brains and use them. An impression is an ethereal thing that lurks in your subconscious and picks away at you on an emotional, gut level.
I'm pro-Trump, which means that "based on my search history" all I get to see is "Trump is evil, according to all our top evilologists."
If I weren't aware of the manipulation and actively looking for it, all those "hey, you eat pickles? Trump may have tried to murder a pickle once. Hey, you drink coffee? Here's how we feel Trump will ban all beverages by 2021. Hey, you have a family? Trump raped your entire family multiple times back when you were in high school, according to our rapists familiar with his thinking!" feedback to simple searches?
That deluge of results would have me thinking "Well... I still don't disagree with his policies or methods, but... you know, it's just something about the guy that rubs me the wrong way and makes me think he is the sort of guy who has murdered pickles, banned drinking water, and repeatedly raped my children before they were born. You know? Just this powerful impression I get of the guy, somehow."
So what do you think their curated search results look like, tailored to their proclivities, and how that feeds back into their TDS?