December 15, 2014: “Google has become the largest lobbying group in Washington, larger than Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing,” he noted, after acknowledging that due to its power, it’s highly unlikely that anti-trust regulation would force the company run by Larry Page to break up. “Apple is the largest company in terms of market capitalization in the U.S., Google is number two. It’s interesting that the natural conflict between those two, and between Microsoft and Google, hasn’t led to regulatory action in the U.S.,” Assange said. “[Google] is becoming a distributor, taking over networks of fiber optic cables, and also trying to become an editor, diving deeper into content production. That vertical integration, along with economies of scale, is reducing the capacity for people to get the information that audience wants to see.” Extremely distrustful of government, Assange notes that Google was partially funded by the U.S. Defense complex in its early years, and that it is in bed with the National Security Agency (NSA). “The NSA spies on companies that compete with U.S. companies,” he explained mentioning the case of Brazilian energy company Petrobras, “and on regulators,” Assange said, noting that the NSA has hacked Europe’s antitrust regulators, which coincidentally are investigating Google. forbes/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/
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