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Website Democracy forces everyone to think the same, or leave.

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



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.


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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