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Name one major platform that if you watch LGBTQ related content you don't get suggested more LGBTQ related content. You can only do that if you track it, and each specific category within it as it's not just one category and many niches within each category. This is no different than any other category, like rock music or classical, and more specific various subgenre within (modern rock, classic rock, 70's rock, hard rock, speed metal, heavy metal, nu metal, grunge, etc). If you don't categorize content and don't categorize viewers, you can't recommend like content. So I'm wondering where this "industry practice" is actually implemented beyond virtue signaling to the media.


Generally people associate sexuality with other protected classes, not music genres. While I agree that these systems are indeed setup as feedback loops, it does seem like a bad idea for certain things.

> So I'm wondering where this "industry practice" is actually implemented beyond virtue signaling to the media.

Old people, people from other places, religious people, disabled people, pregnant people and veterans.




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