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Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle fo... by petra on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:33PM (#11257109)
It's at least theoretically possibly to configure the search engine to their liking, or the search algorithm would be open-source and vetted democratically.

So yes, you cannot avoid power, but you can distribute it or shine a light on it.

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Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle fo... by mistermann on Thursday March 10, 2016 @12:40AM (#11257539)
I've never heard of this idea before, it's actually very interesting.
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