Yet regulation cannot be the only answer when it comes to culture. (Governmental policy rarely succeeds in that arena.) A law can force a platform to ban problematic content, but it can’t make Spotify recommend you a more challenging or creatively interesting playlist of music. Unfortunately, we do not have a constitutional right to personal taste. Therefore, we also must change our own habits, becoming more aware of how we consume culture and how we can resist the passive pathways of algorithmic feeds. The same way we might choose to buy organic-labeled food in a grocery store, we have to
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