“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.” IfsTwoImportantSocialHoursCommonWorryMediaMajorsPoliceTrainSocial MediaCommon SenseStationsBusClosingRiotTrain Stations Author:Louise Mensch
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.” PeopleMenSaidImportantStatesGovernmentPoliticalThreeStreetsCenturyShapesEnglandPoliceExtraordinaryFrancePrivacyRegulationSpyCoercionSurveillanceManualsLieutenantsChattingInformers Book:The Formation of national States in Western Europe Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe