Amen.<p>I ran the hub for a BBS network. We had the best offline mail readers back then. The best feature being &quot;twit filters&quot;. God I miss twit filters.<p>If I ever figure out a way to add a twit filter feature to my web consumption, David Brooks will be the very first pundit added to the list.<p>Eli Pariser alerted us to the dangers of The Filter Bubble. I wish we lived in a world without trolls and useful idiots. Until then, I agreed with Clay Shirky: we need better filters.