Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Young bloggers & France's riots

French police are trying to control rioting on the Internet as well as in rundown neighborhoods, Reuters reports. "Young rioters are using blog messages to incite violence and cell phones to organize attacks in guerrilla-like tactics they have copied from anti-globalization protesters," according to Reuters. Two "youths" were under "official investigation" today, "one step short of pressing charges under French law, on suspicion of inciting violence over the Internet after urging people to riot in blogs." They were reportedly blogging at Skyblog.com, owned by "popular youth radio station Skyrock" and claiming to host 3 million blogs. Reuters says cellphones are also being used by rioters to connect quickly, get away from police, and "organize the fires." Police are saying that the riots are waning on this 13th night of violence.

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