The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.

The Constitution may protect us from government’s limiting our freedom of speech, but it has nothing to say about anything we might do to limit one another’s.

As a former FCC staffer put it, “he was extremely intimidating, always polite, but you had the feeling that if you messed with him he would kill you.”