Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work.… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with. — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world. — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure. — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen. — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
