“ 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 see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossi… Eli Pariser
“ The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and t… Eli Pariser
“ When you read books on your Kindle, the data about which phrases you highlight, which pages you turn, and whether you read straight through or skip around are all fed back into Amazon’s servers and ca… Eli Pariser
“ Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. Eli Pariser
“ 1973 Fair Information Practices:- You should know who has your personal data, what data they have, and how it is used.- You should be able to prevent information collected about you for one purpose fr… Eli Pariser
“ 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 friend… Eli Pariser
“ Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more. Eli Pariser
“ Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurkin… Eli Pariser
“ Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were bein… Eli Pariser
“ 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 billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data… Eli Pariser
“ By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world. Eli Pariser
“ Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line – to adjust to the demands of different… Eli Pariser
“ The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share. Eli Pariser
