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Bing now features a left or right self adjustable bias in your ELECTION search .
Authored by: stegu on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 06:44 PM EST
Microsoft tries hard to give people what they want,
which is often quite different from what they need.
True, they often end up giving people what they have
first been told by Microsoft they should want, but
this is different. I would never use it, but I know
lots of people who would like to have all the nasty
stuff on the Interweb (i.e. all the stuff they don't
agree with, or can't be bothered to learn about)
filtered out for them. People will happily sit and
watch cute kittens all day instead of learning
something important about the world around them.

"New media" makes it much too easy to ignore the
big picture and regard everything around you as
something that exists for your entertainment.
The Internet has made the world smaller for most
people, and not in the good sense by bringing
people closer together and showing them new things,
but by making it more empty, more predictable
and less confusing. People are looking for an
excuse to ignore most of what is really out there.
Allowing them to do that is a disservice to humanity.

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