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dkla1120on 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

Or it's just more Government regulation that is trying to control the internet and prevent free market competition.

dkla1120on 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

I wonder what percent think they know what it is, but don't.

Looks like the question was simply, "Do you know what net neutrality is?"

dkla1120on What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves

> "Stephens-Davidowitz’s data suggests that there are more gay men in the closet than we think..."

> "...that a lot of straight women watch lesbian porn"

Why not a lot straight men that watch gay porn, and more lesbian woman in the closet than you would think?

Or just people who are hyper-sexual?

I'd be interested in understanding the methods used to determine the difference between homosexuality and hyper-sexuality, and simply curious.

But I feel that both of those original statements evoke certain stereotypes, which makes me wonder what biases were applied to the study.

dkla1120on How the Washington Post Rewrote Its Story on Russian Hacking of the Power Grid

I think there is a huge opportunity space for delivering accurate and unbiased news, or something that can give the reader some degree of confidence that they are getting a bigger picture than what is being presented by a single source.

Unfortunately, I don't think it is an easy problem to solve.

After this last election cycle it really magnified for me how biased, misleading, and inaccurate many of the news source outlets are. Especially some of the self proclaimed fact checking sites.

I found myself getting in the habit of looking up news on several sources, just to confirm. Sadly, lots of news outlets get away with quoting the original source, (i.e. "CNN reported that...")

In my gut I feel that there has to be a better solution than Snopes, Factcheck.org, or Politifact which are all are prone to a lot of the same problems.