[mrobot]

I guess what i'm arguing is that if fire and mayhem was ongoing in the US in the form of a revolution my belief is that the system would shut it down in any way it could. I know social media stayed up during e.g. the Freddy Gray protests but those were short lived. The ferguson protests were longer but were largely peaceful except for the no-indictment day. And if it was something more widespread and ongoing that was a serious threat to order IN THE US I don't believe these systems would be allowed to stay up. I believe they may even shut down cell phone systems. They have stayed up in when other countries were under threat of course but i'm talking about real revolution in the US where people start regularly doing what the Hong Kong protesters do, destruction of entire banks etc., but maybe i am wrong. It's just that we've never seen the level of the Hong Kong riots because police would shoot to kill in the US for that kind of activity, so it's hard to compare.