Very much in agreement with this point, and I’ve made it myself in the past, usually with the sarcastic addendum that the people who most strongly subscribe to the concept of “The Free Market Of Ideas” often also hold ideologies that, shall we say, often fail to be competitive without the metaphorical equivalents of tariffs, mercantilism, protected markets, monopolies and especially subsidies.
And personally, I don’t want to ban people I disagree with from here (or construct an “echo chamber”). I derive a good chunk of my entertainment from this site by taking presented arguments and ripping them into tiny little pieces on a routine basis. Hard to do that in an “echo chamber”.
