Aye, they've turned the internet back on. But yeah, complete bullshit to shut a country's communications off like that, though it does make it easier for the government to control the riots and stuff that way.
You're totally right, but in this day and age it does make things easier to organise. Stopping the internet certainly won't have any chance of stopping the riots, it'd probably make them worse because the people are more pissed off.