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Re:Drop Dropbox by dragontamer on Thursday April 10, 2014 @03:07PM (#7568917)
Unlike Democracy in real life, people who hold different ideologies from you on a website will simply leave and start their own websites.

Real Life Democracy forces you to work with your political opponents. Website Democracy forces everyone to think the same, or leave.

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Re:Drop Dropbox by dec0dedab0de on Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:01PM (#7569301)
Website Democracy forces everyone to think the same, or leave.

If that were true then arguments on the Internet would be rare.

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Re:Drop Dropbox by dragontamer on Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:12PM (#7569373)
True arguments and debate on the internet are rather rare. Its generally a curbstomp in a single direction towards the predominant political opinion of the specific website.

For example, you've got Huffington Post vs Dredge Report. If you've ever visited the "conservative side" of the internet, you'd recognize it as totally night-and-day compared to the side that us (typically) liberal technocrats view.

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Re:Drop Dropbox by ericd on Thursday April 10, 2014 @06:39PM (#7570158)
Exactly right, and there's so much mental bias that comes from swimming in your own segregated pond all the time, if you're not careful about it.
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