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I am not sure that letting people exist in their own self-validating echo chamber is a good thing.

• ekianjo 6y ago
  You make it sound that it was not always a thing.
  • jeremyjh 6y ago
    It hasn't always been to this extent. People used to share a same basic set of facts about the world, based "mainstream" news media. Now there is little agreement about basic facts.
    • humanrebar 6y ago
      Was "mainstream" the natural state of things or an accident of limited amounts of over-the-air bandwidth in the 20th century?
      • redisman 6y ago
        It was better mainly due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine