Net neutrality

Dear Ms. Vestager, The computer code that let’s people find you on Facebook and information to be found or presented in your news feed is called algorithm.

In Facebook’s news feed and Google’s search results, algorithms play an important role in our knowledge and democracy.

How algorithms can help us understand the world better, or distort our perceptions of reality.

“When we talk about democracy, we’re really talking about the marketplace of ideas, and whether your idea can surface in a marketplace of ideas.” And common knowdlegde is defined by something everyone knows, Google, Facebook and Twiitter are shaping our reality in a bad way.

If you are allowed to express an idea or finding but no one can see it, it is almost the same as, where you’re not allowed to express certain kind of political ideas.

In the 20th century, the marketplace of ideas was the professional press, complete with gatekeepers to those ideas in the form of journalists. “You either had to be an editor, or had to have access to an editor, or once television came along you had to have access to the means of production,” a lot of money or government connections.

“If you look at the research on how people get their news now: you often hear this phrase: ‘If news is important, news will find me’. But behind that statement is something really important: if news is going to find you, it’s going to find you because of an algorithm.” with a political bias.

This was the basis: the step-by-step calculations whirring away in the background on Facebook, Google and big news websites. We are controlled!

“When we think about these algorithm. We have to think about the power that they encode.

Effectively it’s power to draw people’s attention,” and even to hide the truth.

These algorithms’ embedded power is that they can draw attention, and they can attain attention, and they don’t exactly say what they have programmed to be removed or to be put first.”

The often-held notion that these algorithms are neutral is wrong, the engineers have to make a number of choices when building algorithms, whether it’s the EdgeRank system that defines what stories are displayed in people’s Facebook news feeds or Google Suggest that completes your words. They are not neutral. THERE IS NO NET NEUTRALITY. There should be net neutrality.

Sincerly, A.E. Meer