Can you provide quote for your interpretation? For me "You cannot stop it if it’s a good idea broadly held" sounds more about global technological and ideological shift.
The author of this article, "charlie", is contending that actually, Google could end it in 10 days, simply by turning on encryption for their own service and offering cached versions of any sites that are blocked.
So yes, Schmidt was talking about a global technological shift, while this author was talking about a simple pragmatic step that could be taken by one company, Google, and which they already have the infrastructure for as they already do everything needed (encrypt traffic, offer caches) for their other properties.