Name: 【TED】Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles (Free yourself from your filter bubbles | Joan Blades and John Gable)
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Joan Blades: Do you have politically diverse friends?

I'm a progressive; I live in a town full of progressives,

and 15 years ago, I didn't have any conservative friends.

I'm a Republican who grew up in a Republican family

and even worked in Republican politics, locally and at the national level.

But the last 24 years, I've been in technology

In 1998, six months into the Monica Lewinsky-Clinton impeachment scandal,

I helped cofound MoveOn.org with a one-sentence petition:

"Congress must immediately censure the president

and move on to pressing issues facing the nation."

Now, that was actually a very unifying petition in many ways.

and agree that the best thing for the country was to move on.

As the leader of MoveOn, I saw the polarization just continue.

than many people in other parts of the country.

So in 2005, when I had an opportunity to get together with grassroots leaders

And I became friends with a lot of people

And that included leadership in the Christian Coalition,

often seen as on the right the way MoveOn is seen as on the left.

And this lead to me showing up on Capitol Hill

with one of the Christian Coalition leaders, my friend,

So this work was transformational for me.

How could vast numbers of people have the opportunity

to really connect with people that have very different views?

right across the state border from a small coal mining town,

And I lived there for the first few years of my life,

before moving to another small town, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Basically, I grew up in small-town America,

Now, Stearns and Berkeley -- they're a little different.

So in the '90s I moved out west to a progressive area

I actually became the product manager lead for Netscape Navigator,

we were just moved and inspired by a vision:

when we're connected to all these different people around the world

and we'll be able to appreciate each other

for the beautiful diversity that the whole world has to offer.

that we might actually be trained to discriminate against each other

It's not like we just woke up one day and decided to hate each other more.

There's just too much noise -- too many people, too many ideas --

so we use technology to filter it out a little bit.

it lets in people just like me who think just like me.

First, we become more extreme in our beliefs.

Second, we become less tolerant of anybody who's different than we are.

Does this sound like modern America? The modern world?

Well, the good news is that technology is changing,

And that's, in fact, why I started AllSides.com --

to create technologies and services to free us from these filter bubbles.

The very first thing we did was create technology that identifies bias,

so we could show different perspectives side by side

to free us from the filter bubbles of news media.

JB: So I met John outside of Washington, DC,

with an idealistic group of cross-partisan bridge builders,

and we wanted to re-weave the fabric of our communities.

We believe that our differences can be a strength,

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