[runarberg]

There are other platforms and other means. In hindsight I’m not sure that social media is such a godsend for popular uprising. They had popular uprising before social media, and we will have them post social media. The popular uprisings we have seen that are fueled by social media to me seem they either deteriorated into devastation (a la the Arab spring), or never went anywhere (a la Occupy Wall Street).

I think we undervalue the amount of mobilization during the BLM protests that happened out side of social media, e.g. simple pamphlets, word of mouth, words on the radio, printed words, static ads and propaganda, etc.