people use these platforms to circulate anti government information and to organise in groups - it's a reactionary, authoritarian effort by governments to try to impede the rising tide of revolt that is sweeping across seemingly ever larger areas of the world - while it's true that other possibilities exist for people to communicate and organise, the widespread use of these platforms means governments understand that banning will have an effect of limiting, albeit for a short time, the ability of people to mobilise in revolt against their states.