>The internet actually stifles dissent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_

>The internet actually stifles dissent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri... "According to some experts, the initial excitement over the role of social media in political processes in the countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East has diminished. As Ekaterina Stepanova argues in her study concerning the role of information and communications technologies in the Arab Spring, social networks largely contributed to political and social mobilization but didn’t play a decisive and independent role in it. Instead, social media acted as a catalyst for revolution, as in the case of Egypt, where the existing gap between the ruling elite and the rest of the population would eventually have resulted in some kind of uprising." That said, Malcolm Gladwell agrees with you -- that the low-risk protesting that social media provides is also basically without reward [1] [1]:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-m...