The Global Impact of the Internet

On the Media | May 5, 2011

Is the internet helping to free people from oppressive governments or is it simply giving those authoritarian regimes another way to spy on dissidents?  Ethan Zuckerman from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society joins Brooke and Bob to discuss the internet’s role — for better or for worse — in uprisings from Iran to Egypt.

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