Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers,… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There's always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it's a little… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“JUST WHAT IS GOOGLE? In 1902, the New York Telephone Company opened the world’s first school for “telephone girls.” It was an exclusive institution… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly—of the city, the countryside, and so… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Now, he doesn't control the media, but Donald Trump has been incredibly successful in having his face appear everywhere. You cannot go a day… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“In 1956, two psychologists, Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, would conclude that television’s representation of celebrities was carefully constructed to create an “illusion of… — tim wu Copy Share Image
“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,” — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
