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  Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-10-25 05:21 +0200
    Re: Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-29 16:50 +0000

#5436 — Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems

Via /. an interesting article by Assange, on how Google acts as the long
technological arm of US imperialism:

| In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman
| of Google, Eric Schmidt. They outlined radically opposing perspectives:
| for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its
| freedom and statelessness.
| 
| For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign policy objectives
| and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to Western companies
| and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet's
| future that has only gathered force subsequently.
| 
| Assange describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude
| that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.

http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447


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-- 
Dario Niedermann.              Also on the Internet at:

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> | Assange describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude
> | that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.
> 
> http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447


Assange would be more interesteng, more credible, and therefore more
useful, if he had more information and less ego.  He got quickly
eclipsed by the far more damaging relelations of Mr. Snowden and I
suspect he misses all the press coverage since moving into the
Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

We know what Google is and we're not naively expecting roses and
unicorns from the data-gathering beast.  But Assange needs to just go
piss up a rope.  I'm tired of him, and in hindsight, wikileaks wasn't
nearly as astonishing as what came next.

Kudos to you, by the way, D Niedermar for having a gopher site.  That's
awesome - I'll have to go check it out from my other computer.

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