Representatives of social networks. Twitter. ,. Facebook. and the manufacturer of Blackberry smartphones of Research in Motion will meet with Interior Minister Theresa May UK. As the. BBC News. , At a meeting with Minister of Internal Affairs will discuss the company's confrontation with the organizers of the riots, used to prepare a crime online.
According to the Interior Ministry, the meeting will try to understand how and where you can limit the communication between people in social networks and similar services when it comes to talking about the preparation of ' acts of violence, disorder and crime '. According to BBC News, the meeting will last about an hour, but how it ends, is difficult to say.
Prime Minister of Great Britain. David Cameron. previously stated that the police need to give more powers to control the Internet, in the case of receipt of the information on the preparation of the riots. Thus, among the possible interventions, the government proposes to restrict access to certain Internet resources. In the Interior Ministry said that the question of a complete closure of access to social networks is not.
About their willingness to assist in the investigation and arrest of criminals representatives of Facebook and Research in Motion, which owns the service free of encrypted Instant Messaging Blackberry Messenger, said after a series of riots and pogroms that swept England in the beginning of August 2011. Specifically, Facebook announced its intention to adopt measures that would prevent the preparation of mass violations through social networks. according to. Agence France-Presse. The company. Mark Zuckerberg. remove from its service all the events connected with the preparation of acts of violence, and has already received numerous positive feedback from users.
Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger have been open criticism against the backdrop of the riots in the UK 6-10 August - social networks are literally accused of complicity in the pogrom. During the investigation of crimes of thousands of British hooligans became clear that much of the crime was coordinated through the Internet. The main difficulty for the police service introduced Blackberry, because encrypted messages perhvatyvat police could not.
Among the tens of thousands of people arrested on charges of involvement in the riots, pogroms and looting in several British cities at the beginning of August, part of the accused charged with offenses used for the preparation of this social network. So, on August 23 became aware of the detention for four months in prison, a young man, who called for pogroms August 9 uelskom in Bangor. Earlier, on August 17, four years in prison for a similar offense got two young residents of Cheshire.
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