Like other colonists, the Americo-Liberians believed that they had a mission to civilise the natives.

ECONOMIST: Liberia

Lord Justice Leveson said that "there was a danger of trial by Twitter" and other forms of social media and it would "take time to civilise the internet".

BBC: Leveson: Internet needs new privacy laws

Governments are apologising for globalisation and promising to civilise it.

ECONOMIST: The case for globalisation

They must tame it, accompany it, humanise it, civilise it.

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