Internet Filtering

In class today, we watched the video in which filtering of the internet and search engines was discussed. It talked about how based on items you choose to view or what you are searching that the website or internet will then give you answers based on relevance to associated personal preferences. There preferences are what the internet is telling you that you want to see. This idea is surreal and is somewhat similar to what is going on full-scale in somewhere such as China where news of the protests in northern Africa and the Middle East was removed from the internet of citizens of China. Without the technology to base what you find on what you view, then it would not be possible for such extreme levels of policing the internet. Filtering has started the internet on a slippery slope in which who knows what will be the endpoint. So much of what our culture knows about the world is based on what the internet gives us, that if it limits the ideas and news we see, that our culture will be at a loss.