Pressure is gathering for another public relations revolt against the social networking giant.

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But under pressure from the public and facing something of a backbench revolt on the issue, now the government has gone further and announced a temporary suspension on all live exports to Indonesia.

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To take another example, if users of public transport in London were told that in future all their trips would be logged by the authorities, they would revolt.

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