What Obama did exactly mean
IT IS CHEAP, FAST AND EFFICIENT. Information technologies used for supporting "freedom and democracy" allow the USA to spend less on its military
When you hear that Twitter or mobile phones are essential for democracy and that they give a chance to Iranian or Burmese or Cuban or Zimbabwean "tyranny fighters", give yourself a moment and think about the persons using such a chance and the ways they use it. By the way, some examples of that can be found at not so distant places: the scenario described was frequently used at the post-Soviet space, and last time it was Chisinau, 2009.