It could be that some do that. In other words, they close our circle instead of opening our circle.
In some cases, people who look at this may say, well, that's an advantage, because if I don't want to see hate speech, I don't have to see hate speech. But let's take Twitter's mute button as an example. I can mute somebody so that I don't see that they are attacking me online, but the fact of the matter is that they are attacking me online and I don't know about that.
The way our worlds are being curated is that in some instances we might say that at least it relieves my pain in the initial moment. But in the long term, in terms of what violence is being done, what harassment is happening, and what issues we really need to be engaging in, it's a problem if we are closing ourselves off.