Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems
I did not realize what a nut Assange has become.  The more there is the danger that he might be forgotten, the more ridiculous his theories of the world.<p>However, you have to think about his target audience.  The audience doesn't consist of people who are familiar with things like DARPA grants, and think tanks.  For people in the know, this writing will read like lunacy, because they will understand that Assange sees demons behind every innocuous shadow.  Some random college kid from middle America, on the other hand, won't know that his writing is lunacy.<p>For example, think about his casual implication that DARPA funding of Page and Brin's Stanford research might be a signal of their nefarious links to some cabal of elites in the defense industry.  Anyone who has worked in a top-ten engineering program knows that nothing could be further from the truth.  Those grants go out, in a bureaucratic fashion, to tons of people, without any such elites getting involved at all.  In fact the worst thing you can say about those DARPA grants is that they are haphazardly doled out for some real stupid projects.<p>But think about how that accusation looks to some kid.  It seems like there is this grand conspiracy because Larry Page and Sergey Brin took DARPA money ... of course they must be deep cover CIA implants right?<p>Its complete stupidity from start to finish, but its the type of stupidity that can only be debunked by actually being there and seeing that Assange speaks nonsense.  This guy is an entertainer and self-promoter of extraordinary cunning. Think of the audacity it takes to write this gibberish with such confidence.