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In a world dominated by connections and algorithms how would you find counter culture? It's not by visiting the largest movie theater chain in America (AMC has nearly 8000 theaters). I'm not sure it's going to be online (mail list maybe, but not likely an open forum)

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What do you think that the "algorithms" are hiding from you? Do you think that anti-corporate and ultra left wing content is censored on Twitter?

Maybe it isn't, maybe it is; the point is you would never know what you're not being shown.

Exactly. If everything I hear about requires a plane ticket I miss all the cool things in a 60 minute drive.

It's not hiding something, it's showing popular content more often. The intent wasn't to limit discussions to politics. Think locality of news. Do I need to know what's happening in New York or my current city? While my current city isn't big and thus "not as popular" decisions made locally can have a larger impact on me.

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