The City of Non-Brotherly Tweets, Status Updates, and Text Messages

Philadelphia City Councilmen Jim Kenney and Frank DiCicco urged Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Council President Anna C. Verna to explore lawsuits against social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter in the wake of recent incidents involving teen-age mobs, violence, and vandalism, saying text messages and social media are used to organize these gatherings, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Kenney told the Inquirer:

The citizens of this city have the right to shop, work, use public transportation, and not be pummeled to the ground.

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