I'm reading http://craphound.com/ftw/ For The Win By Cory Doctorow right now. In it some of the main characters try to join a Gold Farmers Union, and the argument of how they can effectively mobilize is that now anyone in the world can instantly communicate and organize for workers rights and fair wages. Before these communication tools only the rich had the ability to organize countrywide and worldwide, but with access to skype or other VOIP tools the workers can have the same level of organization.

Maybe Cory Doctorow has a fan in the Chinese Communist party and they decided to nip that particular problem in the bud.