When Google Met Wikileaks by Julian Assange In a way I liked this book, because it gave me a clear picture of what both organizations are about. I liked the verbatim transcription of the meeting between Assange and Eric Schmidt of Google. I liked that many assertations made in the book were backed up by more than almost 500 footnotes. It is very clear that these two organizations are at polar odds with each other. Google's "Think" tank works for the Department of Defense, the State Departments, foreign governments and the like. They purposefully plant and promote disinformation. Wikileaks is in the business of finding (illegally, most of the time) the "truth" and publicizing it. The US government, in my humble opinion, has really overstepped its bounds in persecuting and prosecuting Julian Assange under the Espionage Act. I did not like this book because at least 1/3 of it is very techie, way over my head. Assange claims he has been in prison for 20 years, holed up at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Makes you almost feel sorry for him. However, he was wanted in Sweden on several charges, the most serious rape. By avoiding extradition, it makes one question his innocence. Assange claims it was a sham created by the Swedish and American governments to get him to Sweden, where then the US would arrest him. CAT: RTT-The Press 190 pages 3 1/2 stars

"“One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.”
-- Julian Assange ( )

En junio de 2011 Julian Assange tuvo una visita inesperada: el presidente de Google, Eric Schmidt viajó, junto a otras tres personas, a Norfok (Inglaterra), donde Assange estaba viviendo en ese momento bajo arresto domiciliario. “En ese preciso momento me di cuenta de que era muy posible que Eric Schmidt no fuera únicamente un emisario de Google... La delegación que me visitó era una cuarta parte Google y tres cuartas partes representaban al Departamento de política exterior de Estados Unidos...” Google te vigila “Google permite a la ASN (Agencia de Seguridad Norteamericana) y al FBI leer los correos electrónicos. Incluso en una aburrida comisaría de policía o en un juzgado, se puede tener acceso a esos correos sin orden judicial.” Google está fuertemente vinculado al Departamento de Estado norteamericano “Pero también la New American Fundation, que es el think tank centrista, agresivo y liberal de Washington DC. Eric Schmidt es también su presidente y su principal fundador, al igual que el de Google ."Durante varias horas mantuvieron un pulso. Los dos hombres hablaron de los problemas a los que la sociedad tiene que hacer frente y de las soluciones tecnológicas que ofrece la red global; desde la primavera árabe hasta el bitcoin. Sus opiniones ofrecen perspectivas muy opuestas: para Assange, el poder liberador de Internet se debe a su libertad y a su carácter apátrida, ya que no radica en un solo país. Para Schmidt, la política exterior de los Estados Unidos se sustenta en la conexión de los países no occidentales con las compañías y mercados estadounidenses.

Google Met Wikileaks will recount emblematic 'tug-of war over the internet In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google talking about this Google Met Wikileaks links and notes which, in e-book form, can be clicked Its quickly obvious from reading contains an important introduction, which delves into the Google political philosophy,WhenGoogle Met Wikileaks is an extension to the scathing New York Times review he gave The New Digital Age, which is a critical event worth celebrating in itself, How to summarize 20 years of power struggles on the role of tech in society? Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ( )