Source: Aaron Ross Powell
by Aaron Ross Powell
“While we have hand-wringing conversations about ‘echo chambers’ when it comes to social media, we don’t tend to have them about other spaces. If you belong to a church, chances are everyone in that community shares a common set of religious beliefs — and we don’t argue that the lack of strong atheist or Muslim representation in a Catholic congregation makes it an echo chamber. If you work at a non-profit advancing abortion rights, you probably haven’t hired many people who oppose reproductive freedom, but that doesn’t make your workplace an echo chamber — or at least not the kind of echo chamber we raise the above five concerns about. … Why the difference? Because we recognize that people belong to different communities, and communities are build around shared values and interests.” (11/18/24)
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/echo-chambers-and-the-ethics-of-blocking