An Attempt At Censorship

[poliphilo]

The Prime Minister- in an uncharacteristic fit of authoritarianism (but perhaps there are more on the way)- asked Facebook to take down its Raoul Moat tribute sites. Facebook, I'm happy to say, replied, "No can do," with the unwritten sub-text, "Who the hell do you think you are?"

The Moat affair has revealed (as if we didn't know) that there are a lot of alienated people in our society who hate all authority and especially the police. We may be deeply upset that they feel that way, but shutting down their forum is hardly going to make them change their minds.  

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

I think Cameron is operating from populism, not authoritarianism. Either way, he is affecting complete ignorance of how social networking sites actually function. Which may be populist again, in its own way.

I am so bored of Torygeddon. How much longer do we have, again?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Five years (I think)

But I doubt whether the Coalition will actually hold together that long.