China is one giant echo chamber. I think what they mean is “echo chambers that disagree with state approved propaganda”.
Every country/social group is its own echo chamber. The problem they address is real.
America will never address the issue, preferring to believe that it is “part of a democracy”. It is not. Democracy requires people who are presented both sides of every argument then concluding by themselves
Democracy also means allowing the people to form and discuss their ideas, on their own terms, whether sane or stupid. Not because that’s necessarily best, but because that’s democracy - authority belongs to the people not to their government.
The responsibility to lead and guide people’s ideas, in a democracy, does not lie in the strict control of government, it lies elsewhere. Where that elsewhere is, of course, everyone will argue differently. But not, I think, in governmental control.
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Not to the extent that China is. They do not have freedom of speech nor freedom of the press. That said, I would love to see legislation addressing this problem globally, and also legislation about all of the data mining.
This argument is a stray one; while it is clear that China itself is a giant, state-controlled chamber, China recognizes that IT platforms and algorithms facilitates the creation of chambers that can be very biased.
America is not even willing to look into that seriously, falsely equating money (from investors and advertisers) with freedom, resulting in systems that are designed to milk attention of the public at the risk of undermining America itself.
With Trump retaliating against the press and Musk owning X, the freedom of speech is taking a nice hit.
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