UK To Shut Down Social Networks?

Stoobalou writes "In a move worthy of China's communist regime, UK PM David Cameron wants to shut down social networks whenever civil unrest rears its head in Britain's towns and cities. Speaking in the House of Commons, Cameron said, 'Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were, organized via social media. Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.'" So far I haven't heard anyone blame the Rock 'n Roll music, but if social networks aren't a good enough culprit, you could also try blaming video games.

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Free Speech

[Quato]

You can see why the Founding Fathers included it in the Bill of Rights.
Good ol' USA where we can tell everyone of our elected officals a what cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit they are! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?

Re:China?

[hairyfeet]

Sadly look up "flash mobbing" to see why he would want to do this. We are having this happen all over America at this very moment. I don't know if it is the same in the UK but here it seems the PC media is doing their damnedest to cover up the fact it appears to be almost exclusively a black on white hate crime. Of course they won't be charged with a hate crime as those laws apparently only work one way. I believe it was the former mayor of Baltimore that said "If a black robs a white it is a robbery, if a white robs a black it is a hate crime".

But if you'll read those reports black "thug life!"ers are using social networks to set up mass attacks and lootings. The reports all read the same "they were acting like crazed animals, they were only after white people" etc. How sad that we have gone from "I have a dream" to "nothin but a g thang baby".

But I can see why he'd want to shut them down as I have no doubt like here their police are hamstrung. If we would authorize the cops to blow the kneecaps off the first three they saw leading a "flash mob" pack? I bet that shit would end REAL quick.