It&#x27;s a perfect echo chamber because people who cross the line are downvoted and or banned on the account of being &quot;trolls&quot; quite often without any real justification for that, and the most common reply is you should go to &#x2F;r&#x2F;yourowntribe and stop &quot;spamming&quot; our sub Reddit.<p>I truly miss the open forums (and even IRC, although that tended to be more focused) of the late 90&#x27;s early 2000&#x27;s yeah they could get vile some times but that&#x27;s a bargain price for getting a public forum in which anyone can express their mind no matter how &quot;wrong&quot; or &quot;offensive&quot; some one can perceive that opinion to be.
Today we get people claiming getting PTSD over twitter and every online community adopting a COC which often leaves no room for discourse that would make some one uncomfortable all and all forgetting that ideas that make some one uncomfortable are the ideas most worth discussing.
60 years ago it was &quot;uncomfortable&quot; for way to many people people to hear that blacks should be allowed to use the same bathroom as they are and thank cthulhu we didn&#x27;t had Twitter and Reddit back then.