quote [ The article?s argument [about Internet porn] is that the presentation of porn - and people?s sense of what other people?s sexual interests are - is shaped by algorithms that respond to the sharp difference between what people want to see and what people are willing to pay for.
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The collective perspectives that emerge from social media - our understanding of what the public is and wants - are similarly shaped by algorithms that select on some aspects of the public, while sidelining others. And we tend to orient ourselves towards that understanding ]