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Um texto sugerido por um comentador do Blasfémias «Online discussions are a poor indicator of newsworthiness. Too often, they are echo chambers for the indignation of a small minority. (…)  The more these activists became aware of the apparent lack of concern of the general public, the louder they voiced their moral outrage. But the difference between the density of intra-group networks (i.e. networks that link one Pirate to another Pirate) and the thinness of connections to “outsiders” (i.e. people with whom they are not politically aligned) leads to a misleading view of the world. The issues that network insiders regard as especially important are often barely noticed by the rest of the public. Outsiders react with laughter or indifference.  Faced with this situation, online activists began calling on traditional media organizations to cover the protests. This is truly remarkable: political changes aren’t usually caused by the articulation of outrage and indignation, but occur when established journalistic outlets churn out articles and generate sufficient resonance to turn a small issue into a topic of public discourse. The reason for this isn’t that too few people use the internet as a source of political information. To the contrary: in the aftermath of the protest, several newspapers and TV stations published articles online that reached a big audience and were widely circulated. The problem is that online activists are often connected only to other online activists. Their communication is limited to those who share the same ideas and beliefs anyway. Within this space of political concurrence, indignation can begin to boil like water in a pressure cooker if it isn’t kept in check by critical interjections from dissenters.»