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14 quotes by Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980) is the chief executive of Upworthy, a website for "meaningful" viral content. He is a left-wing political and internet activist, the board president of MoveOn.org and a co-founder of Avaaz.org.
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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 see is... →

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If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about... →

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I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

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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 more compulsive... →

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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.... →

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If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

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I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

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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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If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and Facebook are now -... →

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It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good... →

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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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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... →

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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... →

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