Thread: A New Kind of Web Censorship, and why you should care

The cookie/cache clearing doesn't work too well. The moment google/facebook/etc identify you as yourself (i.e. you login into an account that they can link to you, or they match your IP address) they can apply the same personalization/filter to the full extent or just partially depending on the confidence of the match.

I wouldn't call it a censorship either. It's simply using computers to do faster the filtering job that you'd be doing anyways. Remember that these algorithms are trained by you, that's why they produce liberal results for liberals and conservative results for conservatives. I see it as simply amplifying whatever your tendencies are, i.e. it is helping you being yourself. An after school special for the modern days if you will.

BTW as far as I know the filtering that google does is ordering, so it's not hiding information which would be censoring, but rather prioritizing it in the way that you've trained it to do.