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Julian Assange: Google Is Hillary Clinton's 'Secret Weapon'
MEXICO CITY -- When Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told an open government conference Thursday that "Google was now Hillary's secret weapon," he provided ample fertilizer for a year's worth of conspiracy theories in this overheated election season.
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While Schmidt has said that he would not work in a Clinton administration, he does support her presidential campaign. Google also has a number of close ties to the Obama administration, with a number of former employees serving in top positions, from U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith to the head of the U.S. Patent Office, Michelle Lee. The chief technology officer of Clinton's campaign, Stephanie Hannon, was also hired from Google.
http://tech-cimne.blogspot.com/2015/10/julian-assange-google-is-hillary.html
People often say one thing and do another....
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)For the rest of us, there's DuckDuckGo! Try THAT as your default search engine!
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)the Google Phishing thread LOL.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)In this extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department -- and what that means for the future of the internet.
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Julian Assange Unleashed: Hillary Clinton Is A Threat, Google Is A Monopoly And Should Be Broken Up, BoA Data Taken By Ex-Employee
Always controversial, Julian Assange gave an interview in London, where hes exiled in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he lambasted Hillary Clinton, who he called a threat to the resolution of his issues. Beyond delving on Hillarys relationship with Google, Assange also said the search giant should be broken up by regulators due to its dominant position. Assange also spoke of a secret trove of Bank of America BAC +0.00% data he threatened to release three years ago, and of course touched on the situations of Edward Snowden, whose pursuit by the U.S. government was larger than Osama Bin Ladens, and Chelsea Manning.
Its imperative that we solve this situation before Hillary Clinton has an opportunity to become President, Assange told Argentine newspaper Perfil in an interview published Sunday. Shes been building a financial reserve and an infrastructure to run for the Presidency for the past two years and shes even reposition the Clinton Global Initiative around this aim. [
] Hillary Clinton is a threat for the resolution of this situation, explained the founder of WikiLeaks, who in the past has said Google will massively support her run for President. Clinton was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, during which WikiLeaks released confidential cables showing she had approved the spying on foreign diplomats, United Nations officials, and U.S. allies.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/12/15/julian-assange-unleashed-hillary-clinton-is-a-threat-google-is-a-monopoly-and-should-be-broken-up-boa-data-taken-by-ex-employee/2/