I kept remembering something Michael Fertik had said to me at the Village Pub in Woodside. 'The biggest lie, ' he said, 'is "The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet. Jon Ronson
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