The regime's leaders have been left asking themselves how this time around, forceful repression and cutting off the Internet could have failed to snuff out the protests. Some have blamed computer games, which they want to see banned, saying numerous protesters are teenage gamers who, allegedly, practiced their street tactics before online.. The fact is repression is no longer working, The regime is thus blaming computer games and the aggression they seem to generate, rather than its own incompetence, cruelty, people's dismal living conditions and their generalized hatred of an entire political setup, for the unrelenting unrest. The fact is repression is no longer working, and desertions and dispersions among regime forces, especially those facing protesters, are far greater than officials want to admit. Sources claim an increase in cases of police officers and other security personnel failing, or refusing, to perform their duties, but also of aiding subversive actions.