Eric Schmidt video slice from 15:30 to 16:25 of the original.

Schmidt here makes the point that a modern dictatorship could possibly run without the internet, but not without other devices that open up a world of information such as mobile phones.

Elsewhere in this debate Schmidt challenges an analogy with radio in the 1930s, which was harnessed by tyrants, by pointing out that unlike radio the internet is not a command-and-control technology. But is this true of the devices - like mobile phones - that he says can be dispensed with. Wu challenges this view in an opposing argument added here.

There is at least a potential inconsistency between Schmidt's invocation of the mobile phone in his economic necessity argument and his rebuttal of the claim the internet is like radio. An Inconsistency cross-link has been added to express this.