In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where they were on the page. They didn't float around over the text. And we're kind of lost on the internet. We don't have any barriers. We have a demand for growth that is insistent.

I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems.

Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.

I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another.

Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

What's so interesting about the internet - I keep saying this - is the web has gotten worse over the last five years as opposed to better.