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Twitter To Meet With UK Government About Riots

Posted by timothy on from the paper-and-whistle-makers-too-I-hope dept.

"Twitter has confirmed that it will meet with the UK Home Secretary on Thursday, after being called in for discussions over the role it played in the recent UK riots. Twitter will send a representative to the meeting scheduled for August 25. Both Facebook and RIM will also send representatives to the meeting in regards to their effects on the riots."

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  1. Double Standard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When it happens in Egypt and Libya, its an amazing tool for freedom of speech and the spread of democracy.

    When it happens in your own back yard, its a problem.

  2. Re:Other representatives by bennomatic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I heard most of those rioters wore shoes. Maybe shoe companies should be taken to task for all the malfeasance they enable.

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