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Re:Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in... by silentbicycle on Sunday June 19, 2011 @12:09AM (#2670149)
Think about a world where anybody who could say anything that would possibly upset you (whether they're trolling or just calling you on your bullshit) are invisible.

Sometimes, the truth hurts. A filter bubble is a carefully engineered blinder, a space free of novel data.

If you're trying to understand your opponents' position in any kind of debate, yet your search engine carefully chauffeurs you away from any info that might upset you, you're trapped in a filter bubble.

("Bubble" has irrelevant economic connotations; "hall of mirrors"/"echo chamber" fits better, IMHO.)

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Re:Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in... by hugh3 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @01:25AM (#2670247)
Oh, I'm just trying to visualise a bubble whose skin is made of filters.

It doesn't make sense, all the air would leak out.

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Re:Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in... by stdbrouw on Sunday June 19, 2011 @03:51AM (#2670487)
Not if it's optical filters, innit?
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Re:Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in... by TeMPOraL on Sunday June 19, 2011 @09:20AM (#2670807)
Maybe it's about filters that create a bubble of Internet space for you, that contain only the things you like and nothing else? I think the image they use as a logo and used on TED talk is a pretty good visual analogy.
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Re:Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in... by Meai on Sunday June 19, 2011 @08:53AM (#2670770)
That world already exists, it's called "social network" (not the internet kind)
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