Eli Pariser Quotes
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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…
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Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on…
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Your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. What's in your filter bubble depends on who you…
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The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.
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We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We…
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In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them…
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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…
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The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.
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Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
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Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five…
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By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.
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A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
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It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you –…
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In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.
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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 you…
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In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party…
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We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.
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There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term…
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There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more…
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Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow…
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