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Wikileak’s Assange and Google’s Schmidt Epic Debate

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Epic meeting between titans of internet Wikileak’s chief whistleblower Julian Assange and Google’s Schmidt debate the role of government in technology and the future of Google’s industry

In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the world’s largest…

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  1. Wow! Clash of the Titan’s. This made me feel like just a sandlot ball kid at the turn of the century peeping through a knothole in the Big League Ballpark’s wooden fence. Overwhelming and also awestruck and loving it.

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