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"The internet can also give us tools more narrowly to target specific demographics and to strengthen those assumptions that prevent acceptance of new ideas, nudging people towards algorithmically determined tastes or styles. Companies can use demographic models and track people’s search patterns to pander to their initial tastes and to strengthen those tastes, rather than broaden their horizons."

Pretty prescient for 2008.

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There is not a single viable sub-reddit to debate politics with both sides active. The moderators are either clearly partisan, or they are very picky about the rules such that you have to learn their "world" to enter.