Facebook And Twitter Aren't To Blame For U.K. Riots

The violent riots and looting in London and other major cities around the U.K. this past week have dominated the British mainstream press and kept a nation on tenterhooks, fearful as many were that their own towns and villages were just one hooded teenager away from all-out chaos.

The violent riots and looting in London and other major cities around the U.K. this past week have dominated the British mainstream press and kept a nation on tenterhooks, fearful as many were that their own towns and villages were just one hooded teenager away from all-out chaos.

A thicket of idiots taking to the streets to pillage and destroy certainly isn’t anything new, but events circa 2011 come with a slightly different flavour: social media.

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