The British: Tell Parliament to keep his hands off the coast of social media

Jim of the UK Open Rights Group sez, "David Cameron tries to acquire new powers to close social media and mobile messaging when there is"disorder": he is also thinking about new snooping powers.". "We need to stop these plans before they go forward."

The Government focuses on entirely the wrong problem by trying to increase their powers to ban, block or monitor people's communications. Social networks like Twitter are used for a wide range of positive purposes such as warnings of danger and organization of clean projects. Measures of general surveillance of private communications or the increased powers to the users of the mine would be against the freedom of the people to communicate in a manner very damaging and would in no way address the problems at hand. The laws hastily, with a limited analysis and information, to resolve an outstanding issue is likely to create unbalanced laws and our rights abuses.

Save our social media! Stop cut offs and close downs (thanks, Jim!)

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