Google’s Schmidt is full of….

Eric Schmidt, the Google CEO who just spent the last week lying to billions of customers about his plans for a class-stratified internet, has been giving Americans the benefit of his accumulated wisdom – as reported by a somewhat doubtful Huffington Post.

The first is on the principle of anonymity and privacy. While trying to make a reasonable point about vicious libels under the cloak of anonymity, Schmidt uttered this corker:

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

Brilliant. Absolutely astounding bollocks from the man running the most revolutionary information idea since the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Let’s see Eric, something you shouldn’t be doing…hhmmmm…I know, how about running a scoop about how you and your Verizon cronies are handing the internet to the powerful rich?

And another belter from a senior member of the Land of the Free:

“In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you.”

Too dangerous for whom – Fox News? The East German Stasi? Goldman Sachs? Vladimir Putin?

There is just so little thinking behind any of this. Schmidt is simply another amoral, greedy corporate with the foresight of a mole, and the instincts of Simon Cowell. Look at the photo up top…he’s even beginning to merge into Murdoch.