I'm a child of the internet - the early internet. Much of my developmental years was spent on chatrooms or forums absorbing information and discussing a variety of topics with a very diverse group of individuals in what I perceived to be a very open and uncensored manner. With that came the good and the bad (there be dragons)..but I learned and explored in that environment. I was able to be exposed to many different world perspectives and started to get the knack of figuring out where reality fell amidst differing viewpoints.
That style of learning doesn't seem to be possible any longer. Most of the international communities online today are heavily moderated and censored (for the benefit of us all!) and tend to only allow one of the extremes an active voice. Let's be honest, this community isn't what one would call unbiased or well representative.
Does anyone know of an internet with an active international community that still has open discourse? If not, where would you go to sift through the biases? As an example, let's say one wanted to get a pulse on how the Australians are handling their new reality and whether our perspectives over here are skewed.
That style of learning doesn't seem to be possible any longer. Most of the international communities online today are heavily moderated and censored (for the benefit of us all!) and tend to only allow one of the extremes an active voice. Let's be honest, this community isn't what one would call unbiased or well representative.
Does anyone know of an internet with an active international community that still has open discourse? If not, where would you go to sift through the biases? As an example, let's say one wanted to get a pulse on how the Australians are handling their new reality and whether our perspectives over here are skewed.
