The Babylonians weren't up against armored tanks or teargas. To be certain: The Egyptians don't need social media to get their freedom. Just the same, communic

The Babylonians weren't up against armored tanks or teargas. To be certain: The Egyptians don't need social media to get their freedom. Just the same, communication is essential to any group activity, and social media is an advanced, instantaneous form of communication. It's a force multiplier for anyone seeking to maximize the effectiveness of the revolution. If the Egyptian security forces have access to modern tools, it's in the interest of the revolution to have modern tools as well. Even if social media only gets 10% more people to show up for a given demonstration, at the numbers we're seeing now, that's tens or hundreds of thousands of people. If communicating via the internet didn't help, why would Mubarak shut it down?