Morality tale #2 Clare Curran Blog
Social order, corporate dominance vs free speech and the taming of the internet. How important is this?
Can and should governments be able to shut down social media and disable citizens access to the internet during times of
social unrest? And if they can do that, what else can they do? Have a read of this:
One of the anti-riot measures recently suggested by British PM David Cameron is to prevent rioters from using Twitter
and other social networking websites. Such a tactic, which was slammed as a trick resorted to only by authoritarian
governments in the past, has had a great impact on world media.
The bold measure indicates that Britain is at its wit’s end on how to stop the country’s worst riots in decades.
Cameron’s suggestion to block social networking websites smashes basic concepts of freedom of speech in the West, which
always takes the moral high ground in criticizing the reluctant development of Internet freedom in developing countries.
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