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The Independent View: Ben Hammersley writes… Let the Internet be so that good can flourish

By Ben Hammersley | Sat 13th August 2011 - 2:25 pm

It was only going to be a matter of time before the technology was blamed. The rioters, along with the rest of the western world, were found to have been using the dominant communication platform of the 21st century as, well, their dominant communication platform. The government’s response: give us powers to turn it off. As the Prime Minister said this morning,

So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and

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