Internet Communications
Does the Internet help spread democracy to new places?
Answered by
Eric Schmidt
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Eric Schmidt
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Eric Schmidt Executive Chairman, Google
TRANSCRIPT:
Arab Spring can be understood as a failure of the dictators to get control over the Internet. In each of the cases of Arab Spring, the dictators had fairly tight control over the media as they understood it. They had tight control over the broadcast media; in many cases the phone systems and so forth were bugged by the secret police.
But the one thing that they did not have was control over the public Internet. And the public Internet was used by people to organize, and through that organization -- previous attempts, by the way, to overthrow these governments had tried, but they had been suppressed. But now, because the Internet made it possible, they could find each other and act quickly to get ahead of the other side.
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