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British Prime Minister considers banning social networking
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I can't watch that bastard without wanting to suicide bomb him. I won't btw, to the pigs reading this.
In the end, the ballot must decide, not bullets Jonas Savimbi
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The internet has really revolutionised communications, so it's not strange that the ruling classes everywhere wish to restrict it in times of unrest and upheaval. This demonstrates excellently the fact that the same goes for both capitalist despots nominally adhering to 'democracy', and open dictators (look at what happened in Egypt with the shutting down of the internet etc).
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wow what a load of shit, "newspapers can be used for good but can also be used for ill, so we work with the industry, secret services and police to stop people reading them".
also i love the line "i asked the police if they need any other new powers", yeah guy be more repressive and dont even think about why stuff like the riots happend, it was not the "lack of police power" but your fucking politics.
All i want is a Marxist Hunk.
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Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!
Its a win win situation for them, they delete fucking everything, making cuts to essential services across the board, then when protests and riots ensue, clamp down further on 'civil liberties' in the name of national security. However they have underestimated the British public, and cutting back on the police was a big mistake. I predict more riots
In the end, the ballot must decide, not bullets Jonas Savimbi
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers Aristotle
If he does that, alot of the people previously siding with the police in the riots will realise how much of a douchebag David Cameron really is.
you really think that? most people who sided with the police will think: "well that will not affect me, because i dont plan crimes or violence, so it will only hit bad people". actually, i think this will get support.
All i want is a Marxist Hunk.
It is true that labor produces for the rich wonderful things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty – but for the worker, deformity. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back into barbarous types of labor and it turns the other section into a machine. It produces intelligence – but for the worker, stupidity, cretinism.
Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!
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Are they hypnotized? The "yeah" at the end makes it sound so.
that was actually the funniest part of the video. even though i hoped for a bit of an outrage from someone there, i mean cameron pretty much advocates a police state here.
All i want is a Marxist Hunk.
It is true that labor produces for the rich wonderful things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty – but for the worker, deformity. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back into barbarous types of labor and it turns the other section into a machine. It produces intelligence – but for the worker, stupidity, cretinism.
Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!
That's exactly what I thought. Is that like someone standardized British parliament thing?
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not want our enemies to have guns, so why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"Here, in the Soviet Union, I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity." - Paul Robeson
I don't think you understand, he is suggesting banning all social networking websites for all people.
Yeah, we have weird traditions here. The people who stand up and speak direct their comments towards the 'Speaker of the House', who himself never actually speaks. And everyone says "yeah" if they agree or stands up then sits down if they disagree.
Also, the Speaker of the House usually runs without opposition in his or her constituency, so there is no real election there.
Chinless fucking wonders.
People cling to their social media. I'm not sure they'd react fondly to having their Facebook and Twitter accounts shut down or restricted. However, if the social media restrictions only affect those organizing and agitating, I'm not sure the effect would be enough to make the average person too angry. It needs to affect a large amount of people in order to see more resistance.
"If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
-Howard Zinn
I could be wrong here, but I think he is talking about temporarily blocking access to Social Networking websites for the whole country.
I can't believe they all agreed with him, why the fuck wasn't he booed off stage. When this happened in Egypt people were in a fucking uproar
And it's amazing how they've all forgotten about the smug git's own media-linked debauchery with Murdoch, Brooks and Coulson. The phone hacking scandal and corruption within the 'law and order' will probably be overlooked now and they'll come out smelling like roses despite their shit stinking like shite last week.
Last edited by Che a chara; 12th August 2011 at 01:24.
