Social Media and Social Unrest

Earlier this year, following rioting in the U.K., sources reported that the U.K. government was considering contingency plans for blacking our social media sites if deemed a threat in times of national emergency. Now there have been a couple of studies with public reaction to that idea. Nearly 2/3 of people in a recent U.K. survey support the idea of a social media blackout. Read more about it here in the Guardian. And see the results from another study by Unisys here.