The position of the “Intelligence- Squared Debaters” is based on the ideas of whether or not the internet interferes with people’s thoughts and opinion about politics. The Internet gives us the ability to read information about politics that goes with our own personal beliefs. When using google search engine, it’s a personalized search. Meaning what one person may find about “Obama care” could be different than someone else’s search about it. All four of the debaters from the “Intelligence-Squared Debaters” had very good points. One of the points being that no matter what google pulls up for your search results, if you are looking for something from another point of view you can always look for it. Say for instance I am someone who is for Obama care and I google it and all my results are positives about Obama care. If I wanted to know the negatives I could easily google to negatives, but as stated in the great debaters most people don’t want to read anything the goes against their own personal beliefs, and when we as people do read or listen to things that go against our beliefs we get cranky and irritable.
When I searched “Immigration reform” on google from my lap top all the articles I found had the exact same key points. They all mentioned; border security and interior enforcement, entry-exit visa tracking system, employment verification and workplace enforcement, and reforms to the legal immigration system. For the most part all the information google pulled up for me was basic information about immigration reform. None of the information had a tone; it stated some positives as well as some negatives. There was one search result that had a positive search description and that was the first one listed. I think if I were using a public computer my result would have probably been a lot different. But because I hadn’t searched anything about or similar to immigration reform on my lap top so google pulled up the basics.
The sixth search result on google was...