Their latest one is about the riots and quite apt given the local nonsense going on in town...
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TWITTER FACES SANCTIONS AT UN
Britain and China team up to block social media to curb riots
Dateline: 20 April 2012
Regent Street in London, once one of the most lucrative retail centers in the world, has been burning for two months. Apple's flagship store is a burned shell, its luxury products looted in the first days of the mayhem which has swept a once great city.
No-one knows why - although there are plenty of theories - but British society has collapsed. A toxic mix of four years of economic decline, massive cuts in social welfare, high unemployment, pervasive communications technology and a massively reduced legal and political structure all seem to have undermined he state.
And while the British may not know why, they do know what to blame: social media.
"Unless we are able to halt the ability of rioters to coordinate we will not be able to bring this chaos under control," says Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, Britain's representative on the UN Security Council.
"The West is learning that Liberal free speech leads to disorder," says China's ambassador to the UN, Wang Min. "It is time that we are able to work together as global leaders to ban the mechanisms by which people are able to converse outside of government control."
In a perverse alliance, Britain - the country which invented the parliamentary democracy - has joined forces with China, which has pioneered software and mechanisms to scrutinize all social media speech at home. Their partnership has resulted in Proposition 7215 which is to go before the UN Security Council tomorrow. It is a complex proposal but its result, if passed, will be that governments can request that the UN-controlled International Telecommunications Union will have the authority to shut down social media services at government request.
The United States, fully occupied with its own social-media-organized protests in New York, has said it will not support the vote at the Security Council next week, but will abstain. With Russia, Bolivia, South Africa, France and Turkey all looking as if they will support the bill, there is some potential of it being passed.
Protestors around the world have gathered but it looks as if free speech may be on the ropes.
Published: 25 August 2011
