Then we are in disagreement. For every worthy, previously unvoiced opinion, there are five more that would not spread beyond a room full of kooks had the intern

Then we are in disagreement. For every worthy, previously unvoiced opinion, there are five more that would not spread beyond a room full of kooks had the internet (Twitter, Facebook) not given then a global platform. You had to work a lot harder to encounter those sorts of fringe; now every idea, good or bad, is shoved in our faces regardless of its merit. Algorithmic curation is doing a terrible job of containing that I'm not mentioning names since I'm sure everyone's list of "ideas that should have stayed dead" is different, but you get the idea. The commonalities amongst that list between different people can form the basis for a metric for which ideas should be rebroadcast and which should be allowed to die To rephrase my point, we are denying ourselves a beneficial natural selection by giving everyone a potentially global voice