"If you block the bad people, you'll live in an echo chamber."

Reality: If you block the bad people, you get a break from the gaslighting.

Bad people defined as people who want to remove human rights from others. There are no "both sides" that don't take away human rights.

@CStamp I agree, but I think the scholars conserned with echo chambers are worried about people like you shutting out the bad people, thus gradually making them badder and more extreme as part of a feedback loop that ends with violence if left unchecked. Of course, the problem is that the digital architecture of social media makes this a problem in the first place, so ideally you were never supposed to face the issue.