Megaupload founder: Clinton an ‘adversary’ of Internet freedom

Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom blasted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as a foe of online liberty.

“She is just an adversary, I think, of Internet freedom,” he told Bloomberg News host Emily Chang in an interview that will air Thursday night on “Studio 1.0.”

“I am aware of some of the things that are going to be roadblocks for her,” he said.

{mosads}“If I can provide some transparency and make these people part of what the Internet Party stands for, then I will be happy to do that.”

Dotcom founded the Internet Party in New Zealand last year. 

He predicted Thursday its values of Internet freedom and personal privacy would resonate with U.S. voters in 2016’s presidential election.

“I think there’s a big group of people out there who disagree with what’s going on,” Dotcom said. “They want to have their privacy back, they want to have Internet freedom.”

Dotcom additionally vowed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would become Clinton’s “worst nightmare” in the presidential election.

“He has access to information,” he responded when asked what made Assange dangerous to Clinton’s campaign.

“What Julian Assange is doing is putting a spotlight on all these secrets,” he said. “Hillary hates Julian.” 

Dotcom praised WikiLeaks’s efforts at making politicians like Clinton more transparent.

“I like these guys. I look up to them,” Dotcom told Chang. “They are very brave and they are going through a very hard time.”

“They chose to do that for the betterment of all of us, and so I love to talk to them,” Dotcom added. 

Assange has remained at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012. 

The WikiLeaks figurehead accepted Ecuador’s offer of asylum there amid fears he would get extradited to Sweden for alleged sexual assault crimes.

Dotcom has had his own legal troubles related to technology.

The Justice Department closed down Megaupload in 2012 for allegedly operating an organization dedicated to copyright infringement.