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Originally Posted by denphone
Yes when they talk of suspending the social networking sites l find that rather ominous in a freedom of speech democracy because if we do that then we are adopting some of China's tactics and do we really want that in our country.
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It's not something i would be worried about .I did raise the possibility of doing this in this thread during the riots .The legality is questionable as is the effectiveness .The reason countries like china do it are poles apart compared to why we would do it .we would do it to stop potential rioters contacting others and arranging further disturbances ,given that there are other avenues that the rioters could use it would therefore be limited in it's effectiveness .China do it to stop people speaking out against the government and getting evidence of things like human rights breaches out into the rest of the world