If they want to point fingers at technology enabling these riots, then they should indict public transportation as well. Given many statements to the press that the people participating in these riots seem to have come from all over London, I seriously doubt they all walked or drove to Tottenham or whatever riot spot was on schedule. Odds are great many rode public transportation to get there.

The right to freedom of speech is constantly confused with a presumed right to an audience or platform. Although we have freedom of speech as a right here in the USA, that does not translate to a guarantee that your thoughts will be printed in the local paper or aired over the local radio or TV station. If you want to publish your manifesto as per your right, good luck getting the magazine of your choice to print it on your behalf. You don't have unfettered access to any street corner to preach your truth. Your right to free speech is not a right to any outlet.

What your right provides is a protection for you against the government taking deliberate action to prevent your exercising the freedom to speak your mind. With them out of the way, you are free to negotiate with others to distribute your ideas and/or create your own outlets through which to share them. So I think whether you have Internet access is no different than whether you have access to publish a regular column in the local paper or host a show on the local media stations.

Freedom of speech does not mandate access to an audience.

You mean they failed to receive the windfall that Pfc. Manning provided Assange?

Not a problem! Just pop the battery... oh wait...

Thanks a lot, Global Warming!

Actually, there should be a law that if you do not have sufficient critical thinking skills to suspect that something like that video might be a hoax or at least have some level of suspicion that it is not exactly what it appears to be, you don't get to comment on politics.

Also, we need another law. If you want to call out others as being stupid, you must be able to correctly distinguish between and use correctly the words "to," "too" and "two."

The iCat mini-applet ensures it will always land face down.

I would. They certainly have an established reputation for impartiality. Doesn't mean everything they say is gospel truth, but as a starting stance, I'll give them more weight than what I would give someone about whom I know little or nothing.

Fixed that for you! ;-)