The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

In reality, though, control and centralization are not inherently antithetical to innovation; if we have come to believe the opposite, then "the Internet" is partly to blame.

If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.