>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.

True, but though I don't "control" the information that does not mean the information "controls" me.

This is only important because you described a "control" loop to prove that a voting public has no control over its representatives. This is an extreme over simplification.