And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass
communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from
modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not
allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.