@rebel_scum: an echo chamber is a place filled with yes-men, where the social strata is completely level and everyone agrees. If you want a more traditionally practical example: it's when a guy or girl go and complain about love to their friends. Most of the time they will get a lot of nods and, "He wasn't good for you anyway." Nobody grows, nobody wins, and everybody stays exactly the same in some sort of static psychological limbo.
One issue with an echo chamber, as I see and experience it, is that individuals within will eventually start feeling mighty claustrophobic; especially the ones that were pulled in by peers are at risk of feeling uncomfortably restricted. And then, since it's subjective opinion, each individual has their own perception of how one should proceed in expressing this opinion. Should it be violent? Kind? Aggressive?
Regarding Twitter: what the staff does with their Twitter accounts is completely up to their discretion, and their discretion alone. If someone has blocked a person, they likely have some sort of reason. I can also imagine it as completely exhausting to be challenged on both your current, and historical, opinions every single day.
Bottom line: you do not have to interact with everything. And if something has burned you, perhaps the underlying reason lies with you instead of them. I can only speak for myself, but there are countless times where I have been 'wrong' or incorrect, with personal scorn as a resulting outcome. Only much later did I learn that the fault was mine. I was incorrect.
Owning one's mistake does not truly happen in an echo chamber. Yielding to pressure does.
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