Two men in the United Kingdom have been given four year sentences for using social media to incite the recent London riots; some wonder if the punishment fits the crime.


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A UK teenager has been charged with inciting riots after she used BlackBerry's Messenger (BBM) service to encourage friends to copy the scenes of violence that had sprung up elsewhere across the country.We reported earlier this week that RIM, the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, was engaging with police over the role its BBM service was playing in the London riots.And as the Telegraph reports today, an 18-year old woman from Clacton, in Essex, stands accused of intentionally encouraging or assi [...]

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