London Riots

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• GeorgesII0

  
  the guardian says it well too,
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commen…
  "A social media crackdown is the wrong response to riots

  If the UK government restricts social networking in answer to the riots, what separates it from the Arab tyrannies and China?..."

  "... Cameron also said, according to a Guardian tweet, that he would look at asking online services to take down offending photos. Again, who decides that content is offending? If you give authority to government and telco and social companies to censor that, what else can and will they censor?

  Beware, sir. If you take these steps, what separates you from the Saudi government demanding the ability to listen to and restrict its BBM networks? What separates you from Arab tyrannies cutting off social communication via Twitter or from China banning it?..."

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  • While they are at it, can they remove all the silly duck-pout photos too ...microkorg
  • ... that are all over social media sites. I find them offensive.microkorg

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