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by gsatic 1063 days ago
The thing is their tools are totally useless if traditional networks go down. And the prob with surveillance, in the age of the info tsunami, is not having enough people to go break down doors. There is no use if the dumb tool is flagging 20000 posts a minute and you have 1 poor jackass staring at the flood trying to work out who to pick on.

That's why however great their tools are they seem totally incapable of Controlling the protests.