Julian Assange - When Google Met WikiLeaks [Epub Mobi Azw3 Pdf - Eng]
In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.
For several hours the besieged leader of the worldâ™s most famous insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the worldâ™s largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin. 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 US foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to American companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internetâ™s future that has only gathered force subsequently.
When Google Met WikiLeaks presents the story of Assange and Schmidtâ™s encounter. Both fascinating and alarming, it contains an edited transcript of their conversation and extensive, new material, written by Assange specifically for this book, providing the best available summary of his vision for the future of the Internet.
Formati: Epub Mobi Azw3 Pdf
Editore: OR Books (20 novembre 2014)
Venduto da: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Lingua: Inglese
ASIN: B00PYZONM2