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		tptacek on Dec 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread ... We had echo chambers long before we had an Internet. Read Rick Perlstein on the John Birch Society, for instance.

Diederich on Dec 9, 2020 [–]

> We had echo chambers long before we had an Internet.

Yes indeed. The Internet, as well as some other more modern communication technologies, has greatly optimized the proliferation and psychological impact of the echo chambers.

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