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by young_breezy 796 days ago
It was the Internet. Not because the powerful gained more power, because all possible revolutionaries became opiated.
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> It was the Internet. Not because the powerful gained more power, because all possible revolutionaries became opiated

Is the claim that the frequency of revolutions scales inversely with internet penetration? Because this is trivially testable and obviously false. (Ukraine and Tunisia off the top of my head.)