Very much so, yes! Exactly! And subjective, configurable ones. E.g., I really do not ever need to know what Ben Shapiro or any of his innumerable clones is saying and I don't want to know either. Yet I almost always do...on a daily basis. https://twitter.com/ectoplasmology/status/1106665857613213697 …
So in this analogy, it means keeping some toxins out but also maintaining an ecology: shit posts, fun noise, weird, and serious. (@Aelkus had a good thread on this recently but I think it's gone now.)