London police are currently investigating the role of social media in causing the sudden outbreak of riots. One thing that is certain is that Blackberry Messenger played a key role in inflaming the riots. With Blackberry Messenger it is possible to broadcast an encrypted message to a large group of people. The message can only be read by the person it is addressed to.
One of the messages sent read as follows:
“Everyone from all sides of London meet up at the heart of London (central) OXFORD CIRCUS!!, Bare SHOPS are gonna get smashed up so come get some (free stuff!!!) fuck the feds we will send them back with OUR riot! >:O
Dead the ends and color war for now so
if you see a brother… SALUT!
if you see a fed… SHOOT!
We need more MAN then feds so Everyone run wild, all of London and others are invited! Pure terror and havoc & Free stuff….just smash shop windows and cart out da stuff you want! Oxford Circus!!!!! 9pm, we don't need pussyhole feds to run the streets and put our brothers in jail so tool up,
its a free world so have fun running wild shopping;)
Oxford Circus 9pm if you see a fed stopping a brother JUMP IN!!! EVERYONE JUMP IN niggers will be lurking about, all blacked out we strike at 9:15pm-9:30pm, make sure ur there see you there. REMEMBA DA LOCATION!!! OXFORD CIRCUS!!!
MUST REBROADCAST TO ALL CONTACTS!!!”
Fortunately, there are now also people who use social media to turn the tide. For example ivory coast phone number list there is the Twitter account Riotcleanup that mobilizes people to clean up the streets of London. A few hours after the creation of the account, there are already more than 68,000 people who follow the account. And that it works can be seen in this photo series .
YouTube is also being used to spread an anti-riot message. For example, rapper Guvna B posted a video online in which he asks people to stop the riots: “A track pleading with the youth involved in the current UK riots to stop”.
YouTube to express their disgust at the riots. For example, watch the video below in which a citizen journalist asks the looters if they are proud of themselves?
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There is now even a Google Group “ London Riots Facial Recognition ” set up to recognize the faces of the rioters using facial recognition technology. Crowdsourcing justice? And this has already been commented on, innocent bystanders could be wrongly recognized in this way.
Social media to create a counter-voice. To make a peaceful fist against the rioters. Hopefully they will soon succeed in pushing the rioting voices into the background and silence them.