Any amount of escalation of violence is not the only ingredient necessary, what also matters in the aftermath is the way coverage of the event is handled. We are in an age where it is the responsibility for people to be witnesses to the manipulations and atrocities they see, and the technology exists for those crimes to be documented and such practices be seen under a different light, and held up to a scrutiny by the masses of a higher degree than state-sponsored media ever held them accountable for.

They wanted every human on earth to carry devices that would document their lives, but those same devices can be used to document the actions of the powerful.

Off-topic but it's funny how it seems like the May flash crash is distant history yet happened less than a decade ago.