Seeing some videos online of people having frank yet cordial discussions about their personal views makes me want to have a similar experience. It can be a daunting and potentially dangerous task to get a bunch of strangers into the same location and get into heated discussions. I think it might go over better in an online Zoom-meeting type of setting. There’s still the challenge of organizing the meeting, picking participants (hopefully diverse), and moderating.

If there existed a group chat platform that helped facilitate round-table talks I for one would give it a try. It’d be nice to have controls similar to Zoom but also some scripting to mute and unmute people in a rotating fashion so hopefully everyone gets “equal time”.