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During the 2011 London riots, there were proposals to ban Blackberry.

Isn’t that sort of ironic, because BlackBerry was used disproportionately by government and corporate clients? Wouldn’t a ban basically cut off the very people who should have been favoured?

At the time all the kids were on BBM and the businesses had moved to iOS.

seems like the response is always to restrict the means of communication rather than deal with those actually organising violence. BBM back then, social platforms now.

Well in many cases the violence is organised by the police to create a reason to disband an otherwise peaceful protest.

But why do you start with dealing with anyone? I'd have thought if the population is angry at the government, then it's the government who has to be dealt with, not the population.

yeah, and if authorities themselves are inciting violence, cutting off comms just makes things worse. from the govt's POV it might seem easier than actually addressing people's grievances, but certainly not better for the people.

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