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I denna artikel skriven av Julian Assange berättar Wikileaks-grundaren om ett möte 2011 med Eric Schmidt Googles ordförande. Efter en tids eftertanke efter mötet sammanfattar Assange sin uppfattning om Google och han vill varna hela världen.
Whether it is being just a company or “more than just a company, ” Google’s geopolitical aspirations are firmly enmeshed within the foreign-policy agenda of the world’s largest superpower.
As Google’s search and Internet service monopoly grows, and as it enlarges its industrial surveillance cone to cover the majority of the world’s population, rapidly dominating the mobile phone market and racing to extend Internet access in the global south, Google is steadily becoming the Internet for many people.
Its influence on the choices and behavior of the totality of individual human beings translates to real power to influence the course of history.
If the future of the Internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world—in Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union and even in Europe—for whom the Internet embodies the promise of an alternative to U.S. cultural, economic, and strategic hegemony.
Läs mer: Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems
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Eric Emerson Schmidt (1955-) is an American software engineer, businessman, and the executive chairman of Google. In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $8.3 billion. / Wikipedia
