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Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems

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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  1. Summary by msobkow · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Powerful people associate with powerful people, including the government. Don't trust them.

    *yawn*

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    I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.