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khendron
on Nov 15, 2020
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Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship...
I am not sure that letting people exist in their own self-validating echo chamber is a good thing.
ekianjo
on Nov 15, 2020
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You make it sound that it was not always a thing.
jeremyjh
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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
on Nov 15, 2020
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Was "mainstream" the natural state of things or an accident of limited amounts of over-the-air bandwidth in the 20th century?
redisman
on Nov 15, 2020
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It was better mainly due to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
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