{"id":7116,"date":"2015-04-05T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2015-04-05T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T13:30:27","slug":"assange-google-is-not-what-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7116","title":{"rendered":"Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447\" target=\"_blank\">Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems<\/a><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>For several hours the besieged leader of the world\u2019s most famous insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the world\u2019s largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network\u2014from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>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\u2019s future that has only gathered force subsequently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"trial-promo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/subscribe\">Try Newsweek for only\u00a0<span class=\"highlight\">$1.25 per week<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>In this extract from\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.orbooks.com\/catalog\/when-google-met-wikileaks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">When Google Met WikiLeaks<\/a>\u00a0Assange<em>\u00a0describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Eric Schmidt is an influential figure, even among the parade of powerful characters with whom I have had to cross paths since I founded WikiLeaks. In mid-May 2011 I was under house arrest in rural Norfolk, England, about three hours\u2019 drive northeast of London. The crackdown against our work was in full swing and every wasted moment seemed like an eternity. It was hard to get my attention.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But when my colleague Joseph Farrell told me the executive chairman of Google wanted to make an appointment with me, I was listening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. 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