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Petition for retention of Social Media as a Civil Right.

Submitted on Thursday 11th August 2011

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Petition for retention of Social Media as a Civil Right.

Additional Information

This petition is to state the the undersigned believe in the good that social media has enabled in combating the riots. From organising clean up operations via Hashtags, to the mass search and reporting of tweeters boasting of exploits. Blackberry messenger was also used positively by journalists to source information and ensure informed rather than speculative reporting.
Not to mention the ability of the police to easily quell rumour and conjecture on the sights with calm factual statements.

To remove Internet and social media would put the UK in kin with the now defunct regime of Mubarak, in Egypt.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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