Eric Schmidt to dictators: 'You don’t turn off the internet: you infiltrate it' ~2014

“The new model for a dictator is to infiltrate and try to manipulate it. You’re seeing this in China, and in many other countries.”

“The solution to this is to encrypt data at multiple points of source. We had already been doing this, but we accelerated our activities,”

“We’re pretty sure right now that the information that’s inside of Google is safe from any government’s prying eyes, including the US government’s

Schmidt and Cohen met WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on their global travels, and debated that exact question.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/07/google-eric-schmidt-jared-cohen