UK Prime Minister exploring social media crackdown in wake of London riots (video)

As Londoners reopen to pick up the rubble and carnage from this week's riots, UK Prime parson David Cameron is exploring new ways to maintain order -- including, apparently, a empire end on social media. In a speech to members of Parliament today, Cameron made clear his belief that law enforcement task force should be able to curb and monitor the use of social winning post sites under certain circumstances, lending credence to the theory that mechanisms like Facebook, Twitter and springtime played a critical role in excite the recent violence:

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There's a fine line separating issues of subject sturdiness from the rights to free speech, but it's a line that Cameron seems willing to toe. And, though he and his fuddy-duddy statecraft are only mulling the idea, it's exigent to ignore the irony in his statements. Keep in mind that this is the same man who roundly condemned Hosni Mubarak for shutting down Egypt's arpanet at the height of its revolution, calling for the now-ousted leader to fully respect the "freedom of verbalization and communication, including use of telephones and the internet." Cameron, of course, isn't calling for any one thing nearly as drastic as what Mubarak orchestrated, nor is he facing wherever near the same level of home turmoil. But the root fictional remains the same: in the face of social upheaval, a subject leader instinctively reaches for a digital muzzle as a stop-gap measure, while (perhaps) blank the larger, longer-term ramifications of his actions. Fortunately for the UK, though, Cameron is already doing one thing that Mubarak superficially never did -- he's pending cap about right and wrong. Head past the break to see Cameron's speech, in its entirety.

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