>>They do not have to control you. It is enough to control the information you get.
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>They don't control the information I get either.
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>I don't watch TV, read the newspaper, listen to the radio, or read news websites, unless someone sends me a web address.
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>If something interests me in current events (rarer and rarer these days, though Andy Kaufman recently caught my interest) I'll go searching for sources of information instead of being complacent with whatever information comes to me.

The information you find is still not your own information. Somebody else wrote it, so you do not have control on it. You can just try to judge it to the best of your abilities.