No Cyber Sex Please, We're British

Just as Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance divided Americans between civil libertarians and social communitarians rather than a simple left and right axis, Cameron is appealing across party lines to those who prize safety and cohesion above liberty and privacy. He announced his measures at the NSPCC headquarters—the highly respected National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Though immediately mocked by bloggers, he has tapped a profound communitarian concern about child protection, deepened last year after one of Britain’s most famous TV celebrities, Sir Jimmy Savile OBE, was exposed as a prolific sex offender after his death. Britain’s equivalent to the Sandusky scandal keeps rumbling on, with several high profile celebrities still facing trial, and a well-known TV sports presenter, Stuart Hall, having his jail sentence doubled on Friday for the rape of minors.