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> You can avoid the whole thing by just not participating.

Except when people don't participate they get nothing out of the exchange and there's no discussion or progress

Progress happens offline.

But you can't deny that Internet is a great multiplier for progress. So you are just handicapping yourself. I'd rather we figure out how to address the problem instead.

Totally agree. I even think, that the radicalisation everywhere directly derives from the all huge social media bubbles.

But participating in a Twitter flame war or something related mostly just hardens opinions. Everything happening online is behind the anonymous mask.

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