Arab leaders were wrong to block Internet access in an effort to quell popular revolts as such moves only hurt their own economies, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Thursday.Speaking at a briefing on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in northern France, Schmidt said Iranian and Syrian measures to cut off Internet access were “desperate moves.”
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