The banality of ‘Don’t be evil’
Julian Assange reviews Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s new book, The New Digital Age:
Google, which started out as an expression of independent Californian graduate student culture – a decent, humane and playful culture – has, as it encountered the big, bad world, thrown its lot in with traditional Washington power elements, from the State Department to the National Security Agency.
Exhibit A: PRISM.