David Cameron on social media

[james_davis_nicoll]

In February 2011:

"This movement belongs to the frustrated Tunisian fruit seller who can’t take his product to market. And to the students in Cairo who can’t get a fair start, and the millions of Egyptians who live on $2 a day. In short, it belongs to the people who want to make something of their lives, and to have a voice. It belongs to a new generation for whom technology – the internet and social media – is a powerful tool in the hands of citizens, not a means of repression. It belongs to the people who’ve had enough of corruption, of having to make do with what they’re given, of having to settle for second best."

August, 2011

The government is exploring whether to turn off social networks or stop people texting during times of social unrest.

Comments

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

This is the government that is cutting funding to flood prevention measures and other bits of meaningful infrastructure AND THEN turning around and bitching about how the rioters are especially disgusting because they were "destroying their own communities".

And it's not a beam in his eye, it's a wooden spanking paddle - I swear to god, I thought that the 20 years in the wilderness had shaken the pedophilic spanking fetishists out of the tory party, but apparently not.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

There appear to be two lines of disgust: "How awful, they're destroying their own communities, why don't they go somewhere else?" and "How awful, they're rioting somewhere else, why don't they do it in their own communities?"

This is in addition to the line from a few years ago, "How awful, this rioting is politically-inspired!" and the more recent "How awful, this rioting isn't politically-inspired enough!"