The most obvious long-term cause of the Egyptian revolution is the historic and endemic corruption of the country's government. Mubarak ruled after being elected in a series of rigged elections, like the rest of the government. Just as government corruption pushed the Egyptian people toward revolution, police policies of corruption and torture sparked discontent throughout Egypt. The beating of Khaled Saeed illustrates this mismanagement: “Saeed was a 28-year-old Egyptian from Alexandria who was beaten to death on June 6, 2010 for refusing to show his identity card to two police officers. He was kidnapped in a police vehicle, taken to the police station, tortured to death and his body was then thrown into the street” (Elgahayesh). Another cause was demographic inequality. Although high population growth is characteristic of a country in phase three, the "take-off" of the growth stages of Rostow, Egypt, this has led to a "youth population explosion". Additionally, high unemployment rates, urbanization, and the rapid growth of the university system have distorted Egypt's demographics. Technology played an important role in the preparation of the Egyptian revolution, as the Internet became a standard part of daily life in the 21st century and encouraged a global interconnectivity that allowed information to be freely, in to a certain extent, shared and disseminated all over the world. Generalization