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Re:In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban by arethuza on Friday August 12, 2011 @05:31AM (#2876578)
What hard evidence is there that the public spending cuts led to the riots?
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Re:In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban by seabee on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:02AM (#2876787)
The best evidence for the reasons I've seen, as gleaned from the rioters themselves, is "fuck the rich" and "fuck the police" respectively.
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Re:In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban by arethuza on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:22AM (#2876834)
Rather ironic that at least one of the looters actually came from a rather wealthy family:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/11/london-r...

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Re:In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban by sliverstorm on Friday August 12, 2011 @10:25AM (#2877346)
Those are pretty common refrains. Honestly it means nothing to me that rioters may have said them.

Especially considering as a rioter the police are the guys who want to stop you from rioting & looting, when you want to continue with the rioting & looting.

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Re:In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban by teyc on Saturday August 13, 2011 @02:09AM (#2880432)
No. The asian shops were targetted, just like in the LA riots. These are hardly rich, but the shopkeepers represented "model" citizens and what the ideal migrant looks like. The looters represent the reverse.
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Re:In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban by seabee on Saturday August 13, 2011 @08:10PM (#2882354)
What do you mean 'no'? The reasons for a bunch of ignorant kids looting doesn't have to reflect their actions. If they could realise who they're hurting they wouldn't be ignorant kids now, would they?
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Re:In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban by teyc on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @06:37AM (#2890644)
The rich don't open tiny shops down town. The people who got looted were the hardworking poor.
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