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Government backs away from social media restrictions

26 August 2011 •

But meeting with Twitter, Facebook and RIM discusses how law enforcement agencies could "crack down" on criminal use

After meeting representatives of social networking companies yesterday, the UK government appears to have backed away from throttling access to social networks in times of civil unrest. However,...

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