Social media and social control: Evolving situations, uses, tactics

[Ed Jewett]

British Government Discusses Riots with Social Media Firms

August 25th, 2011
Via: CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/...media.html

Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Canadian BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. are meeting the British government and police Thursday in the wake of the riots to discuss how to prevent social networks from being used to plot violence.

Police and politicians claim young criminals used Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry's simple and largely cost-free messaging service to co-ordinate looting sprees during riots in England this month, and Prime Minister David Cameron has said police and intelligence services are looking at whether there should be limits on the use of social media sites or services like BlackBerry Messenger in times of disorder.

Posted in Dictatorship, Police State, Surveillance, Technology

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