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Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Infowars: Speaking to the "New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream" symposium, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stated Google is "directly engaged" with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Assange said, "The chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, set up a company to run the digital component of Hillary Clinton's campaign." As reported by Quartz in late 2015, an under-the-radar startup known as "The Groundwork" was funded by Schmidt "to ensure that Clinton has the engineering talent needed to win the election." Assange went on to say that "[...] once Hillary Clinton becomes president, those people in Google, like Jared Cohen, will be placed into positions around the new Clinton presidency." Controlling the majority of the world's smart phones, Assange adds, raises even more serious concerns in light of the company's growing and monopolistic influence. "Google controls 80 percent of the smart phone market through its control of Android and if you control the device itself -- that people use to read -- then anything that they connect to through that device you have control over as well. [...] Google has gotten into bed with the Obama administration in a very significant way," Assange stated. "It is the company that visits the White House more than any other -- averaged once per week in the last 4 years."
You don't have to like Assange or support him to believe what he says. I'm sure there are a lot of people fact checking right now and if we don't hear any rebuttals, we can assume he's more or less right.
We're all media whores now that social media is a thing ;)
Re: "they are charging him for rape" -- No they aren't. No charges have been made.
Two women filed complaints of "sexual misconduct," which the UK doesn't recognise as a crime. Sweden has some very progressive, pro-feminist laws to protect women from being sexually exploited, which is a good thing, but in this case, the law is being abused.
One of the women has since withdrawn her complaint.
Extraditing Assange under these circumstances would be unprecedented under UK legal history.
This is one of many reasons why several countries offered Assange political asylum.
The UK is also breaking international treaties by not allowing Assange safe passage to his country of asylum.
There's more than likely a sealed indictment against Assange in the US and Sweden would more than likely agree to extradite him to the US.
Looking at recent history, there's a very real likelihood that Assange wouldn't get a fair trial in the US.
Also, looking at recent history, Assange would more than likely be subjected to cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment, and possibly torture in the US.
Assange's main crime is investigative journalism that led to some very powerful people getting embarrassed. Assange will more than likely continue to be persecuted and vilified as a "lesson" to anyone else considering doing some effective investigative journalism.