[NyTimes] Cameron Exploring Crackdown on Social Media After Riots

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[…] Cameron told Parliament during a special debate on the riots. “Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill.

Free-speech groups said restrictions on the use of social media or smartphones would be difficult to enforce and could violate basic freedoms.

We’ve seen this kind of thing time and time again, especially with young people, when it comes to technology. Now it’s social networks and smartphones. A few years ago it was video games. Before that it was horror films.

Mr. Cameron’s call for a crackdown on social media echoes recent calls for a “civilized Internet” by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.