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This is why there is no such thing as a 'neutral' algorithm, and it's not just a matter of 'getting better data’.

You simply cannot compensate for what amounts to centuries of skew by having computers controlled by the haves harvest more public data, because every link in that chain, including the programmers and their code, introduce compounding errors that increase bias, and erase some things altogether.

Everything associated with the Western Acquisition, whether it's big tech companies like Google and Microsoft or non-profit projects like the Internet Archive, is suspect.

And that's before you even get to consent.