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Facebook incitement to riot is no joke but Bullingdon Club rioters Boris, Dave & George now run UK

451 views · Published 17 August 2011 · 7:15 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Public Enquiry · 2011 · News & Politics

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"I think it's a little bit rich of Jordan Blackshore and Perry Keenan to say that this is a joke, because clearly in the sort of situation that we had here in Britain a week ago, that the people who were really afraid to go out because of robbers rampaging around the streets as they were in some of our cities -- this was not a joke at all," Gosling said. "I think, actually, it's quite right for the courts to take this very seriously. This is incitement to criminal behavior, and of course these people should go through the normal channels and possibly go to jail for what they've done, which is inciting rioting -- [a] very serious offense."
"I think what will happen is, for certain with the more extreme cases with this rioting, is that people will actually get much lower sentences, possibly even be released because they've been in jail for a certain amount of time -- after they've gone to appeal," he said. "And I know at least one of these two Facebook people, actually, is going to be definitely appealing against this four-year sentence."
"We have to separate the difference between ordinary communications and those kinds of communications which involve incitement to riot, incitement to other kinds of criminal behavior," he said. "So, I think we've got to separate the two. Let everybody communicate freely, but if people are actually inciting criminal offenses and making things worse, generally they are criminals and should be arrested as such."

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