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When Google Met WikiLeaks by Julian Assange is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairmanof Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, thecountry residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living underhouse arrest.For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famousinsurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of theworld’s largest information empire locked horns. The two men debatedthe political problems faced by society, and the technological solutionsengendered by the global network—from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin.They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, theliberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom andstatelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with US foreignpolicy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries toWestern companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet’s future that has only gathered force subsequently

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Julian Assange
Publisher
OR Books, LLC
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781939293589
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Fiction, Science
Rating
3.96 / 5 (437 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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