[governance] China supports UK Internet Policy

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<CA+=oXBJQ1-8bBtka4vrzCUGBEPGW2cw90ZGZ=KS9P__GKZsgmQ at mail.gmail.com>, at 
08:31:36 on Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Ivar A. M. Hartmann 
<ivarhartmann at gmail.com> writes
>We can't forget that a curfew is a impediment on actions (violence, 
>theft etc) and will therefore always be something different than 
>cutting off communications or the free flow of information (incitements 
>of violence, threats, planning of crimes). 

I disagree. A curfew doesn't just operate inside shops which are being 
looted. It applies to a neighbourhood, where people in the streets are 
simply planning on robbing and burning, or even planning on assembling 
in order to decide where to rob and burn.

>After we blur the difference between stopping criminal actions 
>themselves and censoring communication that arguably leads to such 
>actions, it's only downhill from there..

Censorship is about selective barring of communications. A curfew bars 
them all.
-- 
Roland Perry
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