Tim Wu

I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems.

— Tim Wu

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

— Tim Wu

We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up

— Tim Wu

Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone.

— Tim Wu

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

— Tim Wu

Trolling is an ancient problem. It's been around as long as there has been media.

— Tim Wu

I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another.

— Tim Wu

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

— Tim Wu

“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,”

— Tim Wu

I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're…

— Tim Wu

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms…

— Tim Wu

“It is in the contest that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any questions of "who controls…

— Tim Wu

Every time you click on a like button on another site, you've told Facebook that you're doing that. And so therefore advertisers…

— Tim Wu

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch…

— Tim Wu

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

— Tim Wu

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

— Tim Wu

I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business…

— Tim Wu

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities.…

— Tim Wu

If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all…

— Tim Wu

In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where…

— Tim Wu

I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we…

— Tim Wu

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

When you decide to like something, I mean, you may feel you're sort of innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you're…

— Tim Wu

More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in…

— Tim Wu

When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking…

— Tim Wu

If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very…

— Tim Wu

The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing…

— Tim Wu

“Here is Lee De Forest addressing young people on the joys of the wireless: If you haven’t a hobby—get one. Ride it.…

— Tim Wu

Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers,…

— Tim Wu

I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it…

— Tim Wu

Google - and some of the other sites, YouTube and, you know - Google has an amazing search engine. The map product…

— Tim Wu

I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a…

— Tim Wu

“In 1956, two psychologists, Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, would conclude that television’s representation of celebrities was carefully constructed to create an…

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“Defenders of the prosecution seem to think that anyone charged with a felony must somehow deserve punishment. That idea can only be…

— Tim Wu

“In retrospect, the word “remote control” was ultimately a misnomer. What it finally did was to empower the more impulsive circuits of…

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BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.

— Tim Wu

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

— Tim Wu

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

— Tim Wu

“An empire long united, must divide; an empire long divided, must unite. Thus it has ever been, and thus it will always…

— Tim Wu

There's always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far.

— Tim Wu