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UK considers banning rioters from BBM, Twitter and Facebook
UK PRIME MINISTER David Cameron wants to ban miscreants from using the Blackberry messaging service BBM, Twitter and Facebook in the wake of this week's rioting.
Cameron said in his statement in a Commons debate today that the Government is looking at whether it's possible to stop suspected rioters from spreading their messages online.
Home Secretary Theresa May will hold meetings with the Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM), Twitter and Facebook to discuss their responsibilities, the Guardian reports.
The Prime Minister, who was sunning himself in Italy during much of the rioting, said, "Everyone watching these horrific actions will be stuck by how they were organised via social media. Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill."
Clearly he counts BBM as social media, which isn't totally surprising.
Cameron pointed out that "police were facing a new circumstance where rioters were using the Blackberry Messenger service, a closed network, to organise riots."
"We've got to examine that and work out how to get ahead of them," he added.
Any move to ban social networks would mark a huge shift in Britain's internet policy, with free speech advocates unlikely to remain silent in the face of a new wave of censorship in the UK. µ
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TOO MANY PEOPLE YAPPING ALL THE TIME.
FOR EXAMPLE, I WOULD LIKE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO TELL MY NEIGHBOR TO SHUT HIS YAP, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN HE IS BARKING AT HIS DOG TO STOP BARKING. MAN, THAT IS IRRITATING.
(THE DOG IS OKAY, BUT YOU WOULDNT WANT HIM WITHIN NIPPING DISTANCE OF YOUR FINGERS)
BBC says he's considering a 'range of measures' amongst which: "To look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via social media when "we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality""
Would 'be right' eh? No buddy it's not right to use dictatorial censorship when you aren't running an official fascist state.
But I guess it should be translated as "look if we can't find a clever way to bypass EU and UN human rights stipulations we our self ratified, at least for the black and poor people"
And keep in mind that to determine the content they would have to review all everybody says beforehand too.
And by all means let's focus on the looters and people protesting and NOT on the cops who executed a guy on the street and then fabricated 'evidence' to justify it (they now officially announced that the so-called bullet the guy shot at the police was in fact a police bullet and not one from the guy they shot, which definitely leaves no doubt that they deliberately fabricated a story, which only a guilty cop generally would do).
And the same police who attacked a 16yo girl and set off a whole mess by doing so.
What they should do is weed out the bad apples from the police force, fire the people who are on actual recordings going nuts and giving people a brain hemorrhage, or who put people not acting up in hospital or the morgue, or who fabricate evidence or stand by as other do and let them, then when you fired or arrested those cops (as appropriate), you can challenge the damn rioters with 'we are acting, now it's your turn to ease up'
Cameron - He was staying out of trouble a lot, but now they awoken him and he's laying waste to britain, the one man riot.
But it's nearly always used for ill.
What he meant when saying:
"Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill."
I suppose he has in mind - if "mind" is the word - that people detained at a riot would get a sort of anti-social behaviour order saying "no social media". Then merely catching them using a social network could get them jailed, or fined big.
It's probably against human rights in some way to blanket-ban people from using the Internet, although it gets done.
Banning them from plotting riots online would be more relevant, but that seems to be illegal to do already.
I fail to see how this is enforceable. With Twitter and Facebook, they can just set up another account and using proxy services surely.