Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak Resigns

This post is not about an exciting change in the course of history that is happening at this moment.  It's about the role of the internet and the power of communication and information.  Within minutes of this momentous occasion I was searching for information on the internet and happened to notice Wikipedia had already been updated!
 "Muḥammad Ḥusnī Sayyid Mubārak; born May 4, 1928^[1]) was the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011." 

    Wael Ghonim, a 30 year old executive from Google is widely credited with organizing the first day of protest on January 25... with the help of Google Instant Messaging (the most secure way to organize), Twitter and Facebook (an anti-torture page where it all started)!   As Ghonim said, "This was an internet revolution.  I'll call it revolution 2.0."
     Dalia Ziada was also a core activist.  As a long time human rights activist when she came across a book from the 1950's that told Martin Luther King Jr's story she was inspired by his nonviolent tactics and translated the book into Arabic and published it online.
     Days after the protests began the Egyptian government "shut down the internet."  This was actually about 93% possible because there are only 4 major ISP's, all government controlled,  whose engineers could access the ISP's routers and delete most of the IP addresses. (from Slate).  However, many Egyptians could still access the internet through old dial up modems.
     There are countless examples of the role of the internet in Egypt's revolution but the bottom line is the importance of communication and information.  You can't keep control of intelligent people who want their voices heard unless you restrict or remove their sources of communication and information.  Why do you think slaves in the U.S. were not allowed to learn to read and write?