Surely The Police Should Have Been Involved Here?

[youngmafbog]

Now I'm one for freedom of speech but this is very worrying. Some of what was written here shows some very sick minds and vile acts that appear to be pointed at specific people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5833725/Warwick-University-expels-three-students-sick-Facebook-group-chat.html

[Theland]

That is incitement To commit a crime and should be prosecuted.

[Zacs-Master]

'A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: “We are aware of the matters relating to the social media group involving a number of students and we are liaising with Warwick University.”'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/warwick-university-students-suspended-rape-jokes-racism-antisemitism-facebook-group-a8342721.html

[Spungle]

What a useless statement!

[Zacs-Master]

It might be, time will tell. But they ARE involved.

[ummmm]

Hmmmm....very unpleasant.

[Theland]

Useless Plod. Now if they had anti diversity thoughts they would have been surrounded by the thought Police.

[Mamyalynne]

//Racist,misogynistic and anti semitic//

They covered all bases, vile people - hope the Police do more than liaise.

[gness]

I hope the police are involved and action is taken. Imagine, somebody brought those students up......and now have to face the shame of their children's actions....perhaps. Of course the parents may brought them up to be like that.

[anneasquith]

Name and shame them, being well educated accounts for very little in this case .

[jno]

oh, I wouldn't want to jeopardise their future careers as lawyers, anne, let alone their subsequent ascent into the cabinet

[anneasquith]

Jno. Your post should be funny, alas it may well not be .

[ToraToraTora]

sounds like Labour party HQ!

[andy-hughes]

This type of incident points to the downside of social media.

In the days before social media, in order to communicate any 'social' thoughts, you had to actually verbalise them to other people, and if you spoke in an unacceptable manner, you would be cut off instantly, and eventually learn a conversation filter based on what is, and what is not acceptable to say to other people.


Now, it is possible for your brain to leak any verbal garbage going through it onto a keyboard, and out into the world, with no-one ever pulling you up and telling you to act your age and behave.

The culmination of such activity - the ability to spout any old nonsese that comes unto your tiny mind, and it be replayed to the universe in a nano-second, is losing your university place, and hopefully receiving a wake-up call that just because you think it, and you may not mean it, it is still no OK to say it out loud.

[ToraToraTora]

AH has described it well. What we have here is pretty close to voluntary mind reading. What people really think gets transmitted to the wider world before it's vetted by normal social interaction.

[vetuste_ennemi]

No. I don't want the police involved. What was written may well
show "sick minds", but they don't constitute "vile acts". They're just words. I'm surprised that people who I thought knew better are supporting the OP.

The police should prosecute people who rape, not sickos who fantasise about it.

But, Plod isn't very good at that, is he?

To quote the great Mark Steyn "In the UK everything is policed except crime".

[jno]

lol, no man is great to his valet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-collapse-of-the-mark-steyn-show

[Mamyalynne]

A good move would be a welcoming lecture to new students at the University that could include reminding them that a fantasy is between your ears (or elsewhere if so inclined), spout it on the WWW and lo! someone else may see it.

[youngmafbog]

v_e in most cases I would agree with you, but just on the snippets shown it is quite disturbing in tone especially when it appears to be directed a a specific person. Like HereIam it appears to me to be incitement to commit a crime so I really do hope Plod do more than liaise with the Uni.

AH, that is a good post.

[gness]

So often on AB we read......thin end of the wedge....things shouldn't be allowed to get to this level....nip it in the bud....

Well if the police act now....and strongly... it will show others that this is not acceptable...so I certainly support the OP.

[sunny-dave]

I regret to say that (if my experience over recent years is valid) I'm not surprised that it's at Warwick University.

What was once a bastion of educational excellence and hard working students, seems to have attracted a sizeable contingent of over-privileged oiks and rich yahoos - from the UK and from overseas - who seem ignorant of the usual norms of good behaviour.