This Al Gore invented the Internet crap peeves me.... Snopes thoroughly debunks this misinformation, yet it keeps being quoted as gospel.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
As for the topic at hand, I'm surprised more totalitarian regimes haven't cut themselves off from the Internet. Knowledge is power. The North Koreans haven't had an uprising because they don't know there is a better world out there.