I don't want to remove the protection I have on my computer for google's, or anyone else's, spying.
But I'm waking this topic back up, because some thoughts have occurred to me ever since I realized just how much Facebook is filtering information (my blog syndication has recently been effectively torpedo'ed).
I have a feeling that there is a bug in Facebook's algorithms; most of my friends are starving out because a few very chatty friends are somehow unconsciously (or maybe consciously!) gaming the algorithm at the expense of quieter folks, so as to dominate my news feed. I probably unconsciously participated in this algorithm by responding to some of these people's very frequent posts (the more posts I see, the higher the probability that one of them might provoke a response), thereby making the problem WORSE.
What I should probably do is visit each friend and "Like" a post by that friend.
The TED talk doesn't mention another issue: this will eventually morph into a more sinister form of censorship. A very interesting type by the way; you might not realize it's happening.
We could all be profiled, then the algorithms decide that some of us are not ALLOWED to know certain facts, because they might lead us to "thoughtcrime".
