Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:15AM from the mixed-motivations dept.

oxide7 (1013325) writes "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."

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Oh yeah, that guy by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-23 09:25 · Score: 0, Funny

Good thing he got some news coverage, I had almost forgotten he existed.
Re:When you are inside the box ... by I'm+New+Around+Here · 2014-10-23 18:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Nothing is amusing in Russian.

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