> The part where the author tries to tie Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the user-hostile web is bonkers. I also thought it was pretty weak of the a

> The part where the author tries to tie Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the user-hostile web is bonkers. I also thought it was pretty weak of the author to shoehorn these things in his essay. All politicians/parties use "big data" for their campaigns, don't you think the democrats were doing the same thing? And since he's from France, he conveniently forgot to mention the Macron campaign last spring. This topic is too important to point fingers like that. I agree with everything else in the post though.