Julian Assange: Google's Basic Business Model 'Same as the NSA's'
Assange’s book was published by OR Books on Sept. 18. Spannos asked Assange why he described Google as an “empire.” Assange responded: “That phrase, ‘evil empire,’ was introduced by Reagan in the 1980s to describe the Soviet empire. But of course encoded within that is that the other empire is not an evil empire. The U.S. empire is a ‘don’t be evil’ empire. And that phrase of “don’t be evil” was adopted by Google and promoted by Google in terms of how it was going to do things. And it was used quite effectively to lull people into a false sense that Google was a differ...
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