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A social media crackdown is the wrong response to riots | Jeff Jarvis | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...?
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"The government is contemplating tactics against the UK riots that set dangerous precedents. In parliament today, prime minister David Cameron said authorities and the industry were looking 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". Well, at least he did post it as a question of right and wrong." - M F
Wake me up when we have a new government. - M F
set your alarm for May 2015 then! :( - Halil
Although I detest the current regime, I'm not sure a Labour governnment led by that robot Miliband would be much better! - Son of Groucho
Not much better no. I don't see a much better alternative, it looks like anyone who has anything sensible to say stays away from politics and become a comedian or a chef. They seem to talk more common sense than politicians these days. But I'm seriously allergic to Cameron's lack of substance and populist soundbites. - M F
Norway is the example to follow - when faced with mindless violence and destruction, the solution is to go "our values and human rights are not the problem, and we will not destroy them in response to this" - you stand by your values, you don't throw them under the bus in knee jerk reaction... Us peons are allowed to shake our head and go "que fait la police??" (what is the police doing about it) - our politicians are professionals and expected to think better and see further... Either they aren't thinking or seeing, or their true values are "these freedoms are an annoyance, use every disaster as an excuse to take some away" - Iphigenie
That's the approach I would like too, rational and mature. The other thing was the suggestion that people that took part in any rioting should be evicted from social housing and have their benefits taken away. It might please the readers of the Daily Mail but does not achieve anything besides creating more problems. What is a homeless family with no money supposed to do? Young children would be taken away and placed into care which is not cheap and not always ideal, charities would have to intervene and use resources that could be used elsewhere. Do these people think at all? - M F
It's interesting to witness in which way all shouted "open the internet" towards Egypt - and now they want to do the same... What a hypocricy.... The "freedom of expression" is always requested only from the other. What's with the same right in the own country?? - Solveigh Calderin
The past week has been a feast of hypocrisy. - M F