Comments on: Minority Report and Precrime arrives via a Facebook events page – for a BBQ

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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:44:23 +0000

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:13:58 +0000

[...] sites) has 300 comments (many of which are by trolls and don’t provide much insight) and a recent post on TechCrunch Europe has 44 comments. Multiply that by the number of comments on other sites and [...]

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arkadaslik sitesi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:51:03 +0000

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Video Profile: UberVU - Mapping conversations across the web — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:49:42 +0000

By: Ken P

Ken P — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:02:01 +0000

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I’m a total dumb ass dip shit. The true tyranny in todays world is how morons like myself are a pervasive sore on the rest of the human race. Gotta go, mommy wants me to clean my room.

By: KOPN Tech Radio » Blog Archive » News Bytes for 7/20/2009

KOPN Tech Radio » Blog Archive » News Bytes for 7/20/2009 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:31:33 +0000

[...] Police in UK bust up a 15-person birthday BBQ because it was listed on Facebook as an all-night even… [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:15:58 +0000

Martial Law. Woot.

By: ashleyjohnston

ashleyjohnston — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:44:20 +0000

He should have some grounds for a lawsuit. I would be on the hunt for a good lawyer.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:21:01 +0000

Orwell’s 1984 coming closer… Interesting how technology is introduced in movies to desensitize the masses and gain more control.

@MatthewLoop

By: joe

joe — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:24:53 +0000

uh oh, my 30th b-day is coming up also

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StevieB’s Shared Items – July 18, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:57:32 +0000

[...] Minority Report and Precrime arrives via a Facebook events page – for a BBQJuly 17, 2009 [...]

By: Daryl

Daryl — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:31:01 +0000

@James Shapiro – What’s even more crazy than that is that you think it’s crazy that a *tech journalist* picks up on a story from another source and writes about it too.

How, exactly, d’you think journalism works? Everything you write’s gotta be a totally original story?

(But that’s not as crazy as some of our ‘Merkin cousins commenting on this thread who don’t seem to know that there’s a world out there beyond the grand ol U S of A…!)

By: James Shapiro

James Shapiro — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:05:52 +0000

What’s even more crazy is that Mike Butcher probably got this story from the free newspaper Metro on his daily commute into London. 10/10 for originality Mike!

By: Daniel Schweighöfer (acid) 's status on Saturday, 18-Jul-09 09:02:25 UTC - Identi.ca

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:02:29 +0000

[...] http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/07/17/minority-report-and-precrime-arrives-via-a-facebook-events-page... [...]

By: Phillip Senn

Phillip Senn — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:54:04 +0000

Everybody runs.

By: Christopher Charabaruk

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:31 +0000

Only to be expected in the land of modern fascism.

By: Joe Dawson

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:22:14 +0000

This made front page of the London Metro and did make me laugh! They were trying to have a BBQ but they didn’t count on a fleet of armed Facebook Police busting the party

By: Ok?

Ok? — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:19:06 +0000

So how much did this cost your government?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:15:08 +0000

Well. At least he can tell people at work his party got shut down by the police. That should add to his reputation a bit, lol

By: DDavis

DDavis — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:14:29 +0000

Chico CA? Ya, I hear ya – I lived there about 8 years. I think it needed some work, but the extreme cops have gone to, to shut down socializing is bad.

Shutting these things down on a tip was someone’s major over-reaction. Cops are needing to actually field someone to *dare I say it?* validate the tip before making a PR mess for their department and city.

By: Fleacool

Fleacool — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:04:48 +0000

totally

By: Zorin the Lynx

Zorin the Lynx — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:47:39 +0000

Yep, not to mention this sort of thing can get people killed.

Homeowner thinks their house is being invaded by criminals and pulls out a shotgun to defend themselves. The police see the shotgun and fire on the homeowner.

No-knock warrants are evil and shouldn’t be used. Yes, evidence might be flushed, but how is that worse than innocent people getting killed??

By: midibite

midibite — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:40:13 +0000

I would have told them to bite me and they could kiss my ass after I eat this burger and drop a smelly load. Stupid idiots!

By: Garth

Garth — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:29:12 +0000

It says that the party was being held in a field owned by a friend. In other words it wasn’t a public space. Exactly what authority did the police have to shut it down? What would have happened if the BBQ folks had answered “no” to the request to pack up?

By: Pre-Crime Comes to England - Think Free : Freedom Politics

Pre-Crime Comes to England - Think Free : Freedom Politics — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:09:51 +0000

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