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I disagree - because the ability to get text pictures and video out of the country reliese on the fact you're putting it onto a network where plenty of people are linked together. Just posting it onto the internet - with no social network apps - it's much less likely to catch and go viral.

The networking capabilities of these appliations is what makes them useful to protesting organisations. Otherwise there woudl be a deluge of emails going out to notify of each individual update - rather than a simple, distributed notification which people can jump on at any point.