The Committee to Nuke Elysium

..as we have seen in Egypt, the ability of the open source insurgency to withstand/shrug off counter-attacks grows as it moves closer to its goal. Even though hundreds have been killed in Egypt by the police (on 29 January, 2010), it hasn’t shaken the movement at all. Online connectivity is an early enabler of open source insurgencies.

Once they are formed, online connectivity is not a requirement for their continued operation over the short term. In Egypt’s case, shutting down the Internet didn’t work (it only made people more upset).