Twitter Is "Willing To Listen" To The UK Gov't About Post-Riot Censorship

Throughout the day on Thursday, the Twitter-verse was abuzz with the news that U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron was considering censoring tweets in response to the looters using Twitter to communicate during the London riots.

Now, we’ve got Twitter’s official word on the matter.

You couldn’t expect that Twitter would be pleased that the Cameron government was talking – even in broad terms – about censoring the network during times of emergency.

Cameron himself made a statement about the riots that specifically calls out social media as something which fanned the flames of the violence and looting in London.

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