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Re:The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy by qbrass on Friday September 07, 2018 @01:53PM (#17936253)
Those students will spread the idea as a joke until it reaches a bunch of people who take it seriously and start to organize.
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Re:The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy by epicureanideal on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:36PM (#17937037)
That sounds like a different problem. If people are so weak-minded that they can't be trusted to hear obviously ridiculous ideas, isn't that equivalent to asserting that democracy is doomed to failure? That the majority will only "do the right thing" if some "better" people "guide" their opinions "for their own good"?
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Re:The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy by commandlinefan on Friday September 07, 2018 @05:40PM (#17937886)
Well now you've moved away from criticizing echo chambers and gone to full-blown censorship.
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