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I am very glad about\u00a0the impact\u00a0my rebuttal of Google’s The New Digital Age<\/em> (2013)<\/a> had, via Dissident Voice<\/em><\/a> and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies<\/a>. In the essay, I explained how WikiLeaks’ value system is superior to Google, and we should give serious attention to Julian Assange’s criticisms of Google. These criticisms can be read in When Google Met WikiLeaks<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2014), which I recommend to all readers who are unaware of the clash of values between Google and WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n In view of how important the\u00a0struggle against corrupt corporate-government collaboration is, I intend to write a lot more on the\u00a0subject and try to offer my views on what I think people should do<\/em> about the injustices addressed.<\/p>\n Bentham: Google\u2019s Cold Betrayal of the Internet http:\/\/t.co\/pXYFu1ssK7<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I would like to take this opportunity to add another urgent point that I have not yet made.<\/p>\n I believe\u00a0boycotting Google<\/a> is difficult, due to the company’s leading role in providing Internet search and email services. Instead, I believe pressure should be placed\u00a0on Google to actually change the company itself. The methods I recommend are:<\/p>\n Because Google is essentially equivalent to the US National Security Agency (NSA)<\/a>, in its criminal obsession with acquiring as much data as possible on every individual, and is guilty of joining forces with the United States government and sharing its foreign policy objectives, I believe all public-minded\u00a0Google employees should resign or take other action\u00a0against\u00a0the corporation for its cold betrayal of the Internet.<\/p>\n In essence, we need a Snowden of Google: someone who can denounce Google’s relationship with the United States government from an insider’s perspective. Although I do not know any Google employees at the moment, and so I cannot recommend any individual, I believe such a person exists, because Google has often projected a very libertarian image of itself. Surely, given the manner in which\u00a0Google endeavors to be “different”, as in more consumer-oriented and popular<\/em>, must have\u00a0attracted a fair number of people who disagree with its cold-hearted collaboration with the United States government.<\/p>\n It is my wish to urge any such\u00a0rebellious\u00a0employees\u00a0to\u00a0take personal action against their employer, perhaps by leaking further details\u00a0on its violations of the rights of users and its cooperation with authoritarian regimes like the United States government. Google’s betrayal of the Internet and servitude\u00a0to the US government mean it is in the public interest to damage Google, and the people most positioned to damage Google are its own employees. Any form of vandalism, disclosures, or public acts of protest such as resignations, would help to pressure Google\u00a0and make it realize there is a price to pay for betraying the public.<\/p>\n I do not expect people to take action based on my plea alone, but it serves to prove there is a way to confront Google over what it has done, and\u00a0transparency advocates must\u00a0broaden their targets beyond governments to take on corporations like Google.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n RE: comments: I am not merely paraphrasing Julian Assange in this post, nor is the above intended as a\u00a0definitive critique of Google. If you think you can\u00a0refute my critique of Google,\u00a0please go to\u00a0my\u00a0full critique\u00a0of The New Digital Age\u00a0(2013)\u00a0available\u00a0at DV<\/a>, IEET<\/a>, and ClubOfINFO<\/a>\u00a0instead of focusing your energy on this single post.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/indocropcircles.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/google-big-brother.jpg?w=640&h=451\")
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