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Google’s Larry Page: We can’t Have NSA Spying and a Functioning Democracy

Juan Cole 03/20/2014

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Google’s Page says US online spying threatens democracy (via AFP)

Google co-founder Larry Page on Wednesday condemned US government snooping on the Internet as a threat to democracy. His comments came during an on-stage chat at a prestigious Technology Entertainment Design gathering, where a day earlier fellow Google…

 

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Filed Under: censorship, Domestic Surveillance, Government surveillance

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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