Comments on: Facebook And Twitter Will Oppose Being Blocked During Riots http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/24/419-facebook-and-twitter-will-oppose-being-blocked-during-riots/ The economics of digital content Sat, 25 May 2013 10:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jamie Pearcey http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/24/419-facebook-and-twitter-will-oppose-being-blocked-during-riots/#comment-84993 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:25:27 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/24/419-facebook-and-twitter-will-oppose-being-blocked-during-riots/#comment-84993 For the benefit of a peaceful
society, we have relinquished our right to bare arms, we have placed favour on
security from weaponry over security from tyranny. As potential for a police state
grows ever closer with our civil rights being further impeded day by day, to
give up what little protection we have by authorising the censorship and oppression
of our freedoms of speech on our primary means of communication during times of
emergency would see us grow ever closer to oppression.

How can we live in a country that
criminalizes an 80 year old man from peacefully protesting outside parliament,
whilst it legal in most dictatorship regimes, as that has happened.

How can we live in a country
whereby 80 year old man, an MP, can be arrested under terrorism laws for
speaking against our prime minister in his presence, as that has happened.

A country where a foreign “suspect”
can have a shoot to kill order against his head. An innocent unarmed man dies
after being detained by armed police and shot point blank.

Or a country with an impeccable
record of cover-up and deceit in times of police brutality and murder. Black
Friday, Steven Lawrance, Ian Tomlinson, Mark Duggan.

The liberation of Lybia goes to
show the power of good social networking can have against a corrupt and
oppressive regime. Freedom of speech is our last line of defence against our
views and rights being enslaved to those in power.

How can vote out the corrupt, when
the corruption flourishes in all parties; when not a single MP fights for our civil
rights. Not a single MP veto’s an act that will see our rights to peaceful
protest criminalised, for nothing more than the benefit of those in power. Or a
parliament that thinks nothing of criminalising a citizen as a terrorist for
portraying video police officers in their true form.

What voice do we have when our
voice means nothing. When our voice is restricted in times that it matters the
most. What voice do we have when our voice goes ignored.

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