However, if we genuinely believe that technologies are somehow neutral and objective arbiters of good reasoning

However, if we genuinely believe that technologies are somehow neutral and objective arbiters of good reasoning

— logical systems that merely describe the entire world without making value judgments — we encounter genuine difficulty. for instance, if suggestion systems declare that particular associations are more reasonable, logical, acceptable or common than the others we run the possibility of silencing minorities. (here is the well-documented “Spiral of Silence” effect political experts routinely discover that basically claims you will be less likely to want to show your self if you were to think your viewpoints have been in the minority, or apt to be within the minority in the future.)

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