BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

I swear when I first seen that pic in this story, I thought the girl in the pink swimming suit was a little fat bloke with his langer hanging out. Had come in here ready to lambaste the journal for posting such a pic.

I get their point (just) but you cannot completely halt people communicating. Nor drag in every student who is arranging a water balloon fight into court. The speed at which people can communicate using online services does seem to be the big concern. However unless you are ‘known’ to the authorities and an identified risk I am uncertain as to the prudence or the cost effectiveness of monitoring every communication made on social networking sites. There is also the issue of freedom of speech which is a tricky one here as much as anywhere. Within the various laws governing publication you may say what you please. However, incitement to hatred, violence, civil disobedience etc must be taken into consideration.
I fail to see how a water fight breaks any of those laws. Sure there is the ‘we thought it was code for something else’ argument. However, I would have thought if you were going to get involved in cryptology to cover an organised riot you would be a little more sophisticated about it.

UK have gone way over the top in dealing with the riots.rioters should be punished but I don’t think someone who smashed cars,set houses on fire,used violence should get the same punishment as the minor offenders in all of this.the case of the student who looted a bottle of water and got six months in jail?its ridiculous!of course he should be punished but this is all just a bit over the top!

The police state has finally arrived in the uk. A lot of people are going to have to be very careful about what they put out online. Where are they going to put all these misbehaving young people? Concentration camps?

“A MAN HAS been charged by UK police for allegedly trying to organise a water fight using the BlackBerry Messenger social network.”

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Still, fair dues to the Met for understanding the benefits of monitoring Blackberry traffic.

And for proving that they can so this in real time and apparently without a special court order.

Up until now this was mere speculation on my part.

It does beg the question about who decides what to prosecute.

What are species of information are they going to act on next?

10-year olds plotting to hold a tea party in the garden shed?

sorry journal but this is a very misleading headline. i thought more of you than that. there could be more to this "water fight" than meets the eye. shame on you.