I've met Rob outside of the forum (he lives in the same town as I do). He is really nice. We're trying to arrange to meet up again. I'm going to try and ignore the politics and see it as a fun afternoon out.
A big problem I see is the "filter bubbles" that exist on the WWW; people are only showed content the algorithms think they will already like. People's views are not challenged as a result, because they become surrounded by content and people who share their views. An easy thing people can do is to switch search engines and stop using Google. I use DuckDuckGo myself, as I know it's not tracking my searches and everyone gets the same results when they search using a term.
A big problem I see is the "filter bubbles" that exist on the WWW; people are only showed content the algorithms think they will already like. People's views are not challenged as a result, because they become surrounded by content and people who share their views. An easy thing people can do is to switch search engines and stop using Google. I use DuckDuckGo myself, as I know it's not tracking my searches and everyone gets the same results when they search using a term.
