It's the echo chamber and unoriginal thought. In a free society, people are free to speak about the world and how they see it. This is practically the job of a

It's the echo chamber and unoriginal thought. In a free society, people are free to speak about the world and how they see it. This is practically the job of a journalist: observe, record goings-on and ask insightful questions that generate understanding. But now people that don't cleave to the consensus opinions of the crowd are essentially discarded based on the post-modern view of dubious "lived experience", suspect motivation, etc.