This is more a response to most other commenters that vilify this stance. Yeah, it's good to support your local community and engage with your neighbors in matt

This is more a response to most other commenters that vilify this stance. Yeah, it's good to support your local community and engage with your neighbors in matters that unite purely based on geography. But it can definitely be a tyranny, as many who escaped the small 'everybody-knows-everybody' village into the relieving anonymity of the big city will testify. Especially so if you have been bestowed with some personality trait that traditionally has been subject to chastise or outright persecution. The internet is the freedom of the big city squared. You socialize with peers and like minded people, not with those that happen to live in your apartment building. As for 'echo chamber'; there is that, but on balance I'd say it's not like the internet to a larger degree than previously prevents you from seeing other opinions or doesn't confront you with strange views. On the contrary, in my experience.