Community Quote by Ilan Berman

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle…

— Amy Jo Martin

You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that…

— Eric Schmidt

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can.…

— Clay Shirky

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

— Evgeny Morozov

Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.

— Sharan Burrow

Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to…

— Conan O'Brien

At a certain point, a critical mass of people either have used the Internet or have expectations. Anything less than the free flow of…

— Jared Cohen

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station,…

— Louise Mensch

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

— Mark McKinnon

We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will…

— Eric Schmidt