Assange defines Google as private NSA

As told 6

“he wrote a book on google where he defined google as a private version of nsa. national security agency.”
1:41:55 Slavoj Žižek — Democracy: Is This The End?2022-11-04 · 2:17:03

“The thesis is Google is a privatized version of NSA, gathering all the information etc.”
22:50 Slavoj Zizek: COVID, Tech Billionaires, Racism, and So On — 2021 Interview2021-01-16 · 1:22:13

“google is closely connected to us state establishment. some people, my friends, describe google as private nsa”
46:37 RFE/RL interview with Slavoj Žižek2016-07-09 · 54:16

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 4 jobsuses

neoliberalism ×2 Google as corporate private version of NSA ×1 unfreedom experienced as freedom ×1 direct domination ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Franklin Delano Roosevelt2 Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor1 Boko Haram1 Alexander Nevsky1 Arielle Valsaint1 Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt1 Kwasi Kwarteng1 Valentim1

alongside works

When Google Met WikiLeaks2 Eurovision Song Contest1 The Bridge (Broen/Bron)1 Book on Google (by Julian Assange)1 Haiti constitution1 We Need a Socialist Reset, Not a Corporate 'Great Reset' (Jacobin article)1 WikiLeaks documents1 The Second Mother1

Told together with

20% Trump vs. Sanders 2 shared talks

Every retelling 6

1:41:55 Slavoj Žižek — Democracy: Is This The End?2022-11-04 · 2:17:03

Assange's book argues Google is a corporate-run National Security Agency: the dangerous Western form of surveillance is invisible because it is experienced as free surfing, the paradigm case of unfreedom experienced as freedom., illustrating Google as private NSA,unfreedom experienced as freedom

22:50 Slavoj Zizek: COVID, Tech Billionaires, Racism, and So On — 2021 Interview2021-01-16 · 1:22:13

Žižek endorses Assange's thesis that Google is a privatized version of the NSA, gathering information on all of us, more significant even than the Iraq war logs WikiLeaks disclosed., illustrating the ideology of freedom as unfreedom,the commons

46:37 RFE/RL interview with Slavoj Žižek2016-07-09 · 54:16

Žižek cites friends describing Google as 'private NSA' to illustrate that neoliberalism is an ideology masking the reality of strong state-capitalist integration., illustrating neoliberalism as ideology,technology-ai-cyberspace

2:36 Slavoj Žižek on Julian Assange, Bolsonaro & yellow vests (Apr. 2019)2019-04-05 · 13:52

Cites Julian Assange’s book arguing that Google functions as a private, corporate version of the NSA, illustrating the merger of state and corporate surveillance., illustrating Google as corporate private version of NSA

1:28:14 Slavoj Zizek lecture Totality or Assemblage 012022-02-23 · 1:31:00

Žižek admits Julian Assange's best work is a book titled 'When Google Met WikiLeaks,' which he says is totally ignored, using it to discuss how money functions as a tool of direct domination by tech giants., illustrating fictitious capital,direct personal domination

Slavoj Zizek - Israel, Palestine & the Future2023-11-19 · 1:32:00

Žižek cites Assange's book on Google to show the concrete connection between digital mega-companies and American secret services, preventing liberal hypocrisy., illustrating ideology