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Cameron wants to cut off those "plotting violence, disorder and criminality." I doubt cutting off Facebook would have handicapped Bernie Madoff of the many criminals in London's City, but who knows. Sarkozy is cutting off folks for copying; perhaps he thinks Samsung should not just be sanctioned for copying the iPad but also removed from the net?

   The Chinese saw the irony. As The Guardian reported, “The Chinese government official news agency, Xinhua, welcomed the suggestion, saying it marked an improvement from Cameron's comments in February. Then, he had urged Egypt and other north African nations to allow freedom of expression after they tried to restrict the operation of social media.

   “Xinhua said: 'For the benefit of the general public, proper web monitoring is legitimate and necessary. We may wonder why western leaders, on the one hand, tend to indiscriminately accuse other nations of monitoring, but on the other take for granted their steps to monitor and control the internet.'” http://bit.ly/qc3IzK

   Did anyone else see the irony of the U.S. working actively to delay Egyptian elections after the disorders because we thought the Muslim Brotherhood might outpoll the folks we prefer?