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Follow-up of the CBC Radio Canada interview with Antonio Casilli, about pro-ana blogs Web censorship.

Following the 2011 wave of political unrest, the formation of a consensus around Internet censorship is underway.The present paper adopts a social simulation approach to show that the decision to regulate or restrict social media in situations of civil unrest results in higher levels of violence.

Blocking social networks and censoring the Internet would end up in even more violence, social scientists warn.