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Hadrian's Firewall: Xinhua on "Britain's U-turn Over Web-Monitoring"

David Cameron’s suggestion that individuals’ access to social media might be restricted to help contain future riots has prompted widespread comparisons with internet controls in China and elsewhere. Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch commented on Twitter that such a policy would “set [an] awful precedent for [the] Chinas of [the] world.” At The Atlantic, James Fallows wrote