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Teenager charged with using BBM to incite riot
A TEENAGER has become among the first to be charged with using the Blackberry messaging (BBM) service to encourage others to take part in a riot.
According to the Telegraph, the Essex 18-year-old has been accused of "intentionally encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007".
The BBM message allegedly sent on Monday 8 August encouraged friends to emulate violence and looting spreading across the UK. The unnamed teenager has been bailed and will appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on 1 September.
Her case is among the first in which police have specifically cited BBM. A 27-year-old man from Southampton was also charged with inciting violence on the Blackberry messaging service yesterday.
Yesterday, The INQUIRER reported that UK Prime Minister David Cameron wants to ban would-be miscreants from using the Blackberry messaging service BBM, Twitter and Facebook in the wake of this week's rioting.
Cameron said in a Commons debate 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 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."
Any move to ban social networks would mark a huge shift in Britain's internet policy. Also yesterday, hacktavist group Anonymous issued a thinly veiled threat to the Government about its proposed plans to shut down social networking during times of social unrest.
"UK prime minister David Cameron is calling for restrictions on internet usage (especially social networks). We're watching this situation", said the AnonymousIRC Twitter feed.
On Monday, RIM said it would help investigators "in any way we can". µ
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Serious Crime Act 2007 quoted from the article.
This was just 5 years ago and in other countries like mine, we do recgnize that the ultimate responsibility of the crime committed falls on the person who comitted the crime and not the hecklers or "inciters".
Its like in school or when teens under peer pressure are encouraged to break rules but each person is capable of making their own decisions and even if the whole world tells you to commit a crime, if you do it, you are responsible for the crime and not the world.
In many countries the Serious Crime Act of 2007 implemented in the UK would never be ratified or passed as law because it would have chilling consequences for human rights and freedom of expression.
Im not an idiot i dont agree with many things but im not an idiot.
And you mike failed to get the idea at all.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or you're just an idiot. Yes, inciting is a crime.
So if i encouraged people to commit crimes but i myself wasnt involved in making the crime that makes me culpable?
Does the inciter have some sort of mind control over the actual commiters of the crime?
Shouldn't the actual criminals who do have sound mind and free choice be the ones charged for the crimes?
As i said again how can i control them so that they lose their independent will to decide to commit a crime or not?
On the subject of the riots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_7_of_the_European_Convention_on_Human_Rights
"(1) No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed."
And even places like iran have that in their constitution.
I'm sorry to say that the EU does has a million bailouts for rights on free speech though, since every nation is so damn eager to have their own lack of it
so, if the population doesn't like what the government's doing and tells one another, perhaps just to meet or take part in a demonstration, the sender should be arrested / banned?
i thought that was a middle-east / chinese solution to dissent?
As usual, you're a complete effing idiot!
Enough said
BECAUSE IF THE POLICE DIDNT ASK TEAM POISON FOR PERMISSION FIRST, THEY MAY FIND THEMSELVES FACING SOME UNWANTED HEAT.
THE JUDGE MAY WANT TO THINK TWICE ABOUT HEARING THIS CASE TOO.
JUST SAYING...
Police stand down, to make the riots appear as such. Reports of "rioters" being paid to riot are out. Prime Minister comes back to the Rescue, various questions about his government go to the background, or deep hole.
Problem, Reaction, Solution ! It's the standard in their playbook. What happens if the citizens of G.B want out of the Euro State ? What happens if the citizens of Ireland go for the Iceland solution to the Euro debt ?
Well, thanks to this little show, the sheep want MORE POLICE POWERS. What are they going to do when tyranny is in their face, and they realize they have been duped ? Well go tell someone then, go warn someone then, go urge someone to do something then, and then see what will happen to YOU !