While the UK government is considering whether to shut down Twitter so the people using the service for “ill” won’t have a way to communicate, the police have taken to tweets as a way of outing some of the convicted looters. The Greater Manchester Police are tweeting the names, birthdates and addresses of these rioters. They say they’re doing it “so no-one of the same name can be misidentified as the culprit.”
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