Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for Yours

Re:Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for... by Noos on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:47PM (#12004684)

You could add articles against drug legalization, articles from a conservative (i.e. not libertarian or liberal) basis, articles against increasing city density, articles in favor of cars and suburban living, articles in favor of strong intellectual property laws, articles on the religious ideas and uses of technology, etc.

There's a definite demographic that posts here, and it is very much an echo chamber.

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Re:Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for... by dang on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @06:07PM (#12005173)

Here is an example of what I claim is not the case. We see angry arguments about all of those topics on HN. They're not even infrequent.

My claim is that you (I don't mean you personally, but all of us in your position) perceive HN as an 'echo chamber' on such issues precisely because it isn't. I imagine there are small biases on some of them, but people exaggerate this into "groupthink", "bubble", "echo chamber", etc., not because that's how it is but because that's how it feels.

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Re:Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for... by type0 on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @07:43PM (#12005683)

It is an echo chamber for some of the threads, for other - people agree to disagree.

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