That's insane.

People like that scare me. It's always an illusion, no politician could stop the internet even if they tried. They can only make it harder. On the flip side, if he was stupid enough to do it, the only conclusion would be more riots. The police can't handle it now? Just wait till no one can play farmville with their friends, or skype their moms. Turn those moltiv cocktails towards parliament. I'm sure that's Cameron's goal, whatever government can do to shit on the people, let's make a bad situation more deadly.

Why stop there? He should ban the English language itself. The rioters were using it communicate. And now that he realizes the danger of media hopefully he will stop using it altogether. Going forward Question Hour will take the form of crop circles and rock sculptures.

They need to close all supermarkets, they are an essential support system for the bad guys. Cut the electricity and water as well. Half-measures are just not going to work.

@4 - It's the queen's English, and she wants it back.

"organized riot" seems like an oxymoron to me.

Cameron? I thought Wen Jiabao was the premier of totalitarian China. What? Oh, England? Really?

They're conservatives. Of course every solution they propose is going to involve more oppressive measures. It's all they understand. Look for a "compromise" solution that involves unlimited power to intercept and disrupt all communications, probably paired with some kind of registration scheme to attempt to eliminate the possibility of anonymous communication.

"We believe some of the rioters have been employing scooters, cars, and other motorized vehicles to shuttle themselves to scenes of chaos and to subsequently flee them before the police have arrived; therefore, we have decided all motorized vehicle use shall be prohibited within the London city limits."

If they have the totalitarian superpowers to ban Facebook, maybe they should just ban riots.

Was Cameron taking talking points from Newt Gingrich again? Remember Newt's claim that we here in America have too much freedom of speech?

Social media, and things like Freedom of speech are great when they can be used to collect valuable information for marketing purposes, or used to raise your voice in praise of the great deals you get at Wal-Mart, or how wonderful Stainmaster carpeting is.

But when it goes too far, the gatekeepers of morality - church and state - must step in and tell people to cool it down. When that doesn't work, you must bring in the big guns.

Order must be kept. The wealthy must be allowed to continue their systematic accumulation of wealth at any cost. Anything else is Socialism, which is an offense to both God and free men. Just ask our troll, or any of our more Reactionary posters here on Slog.

Fuck David Cameron and fuck Nick Clegg for handing parliament over to those goddamn Tories.

Cell phones were jammed during parts of the WTO protests. FYI.

Why doesn't England just force cell providers to give MiniTru the power to block all digital communications whenever it wants? It's not hard.

You can't stop us.

Information, like the phone contact info on your mistress, Prime Minister, from your FB app on your Crackberry, just wants to be free.