The Internet has begun to be used by dictators who want to controln people and Google is not ignoring this.
"With what has happened in the last year, governments have realized that you will not turn off the Internet," said Google President Eric Schmidt.
According to the newspaper Guardian, this statement was made during the conference SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Schmidt, of course, went a step further and mentioned that the new model of a dictator is to infiltrate and try to manipulate the Internet, which has been evident so far in countries like China.
This statement is very important, especially considering the current international context, the demonstrations taking place in many countries and the conflicts that are at the center of attention.
Most of the time, the Internet has played an important role in uprisings such as those in Ukraine, Venezuela, Turkey and Egypt. In most of these cases, governments have tried to interfere with Internet freedom by blocking social media and other tools often used by protesters.
"We want to strengthen mobile phones and connectivity, especially for people who do not have them. In the book, we can say that revolutions will be easier to start, but harder to end, "said Schmidt, referring to a book he co-authored with Jared Cohen on how the new digital age will shape the future. .
It should also be noted that Google and Eric Schmidt have reacted vigorously after the NSA scandal in recent months, calling for increased government transparency and upgrading their network security by using SSL by default for protect users.
“The solution to this is to encrypt the data at multiple points at the source. We had already done that, but now we just accelerated our activities," said Schmidt. "We're pretty sure that right now it's the information that exist inside Google are safe from the prying eyes of any government, including the US government. We were attack by the Chinese in 2010, we were attacked by the NSA in 2013. These are the facts,” said the Google president.
Schmidt has previously stated that encryption is the key to ending it censorships on the Internet that is happening in countries like China, where the Great Firewall blocks many websites, as the government tries to eliminate Internet content that is unfavorable to them and limit citizens' access to information.
