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| How social media changed protest | How social media changed protest |
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| By Dominic Casciani BBC News home affairs correspondent | By Dominic Casciani BBC News home affairs correspondent |
| Over the past month, many parts of the UK have witnessed student-led protests against tuition fees and the end of grants in further education. | Over the past month, many parts of the UK have witnessed student-led protests against tuition fees and the end of grants in further education. |
| On television, the scenes have looked like a typical demonstration: people standing around in the cold waving placards while police run around after trouble-makers. But what's beyond doubt is that social media has played an important role in the anti-cuts demonstrations, but is it changing the nature of modern protest? | On television, the scenes have looked like a typical demonstration: people standing around in the cold waving placards while police run around after trouble-makers. But what's beyond doubt is that social media has played an important role in the anti-cuts demonstrations, but is it changing the nature of modern protest? |
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| It is naive to suggest that the government is provoking a class war with the eduction cuts. They actually suggest means tested scholarships, that will make it cheaper for the poorest 25% of students.The cuts are a tool to reduce the huge deficit, and as a biproduct it will also sort the terrible, oversubscribed mess of higher education in the UK - both due to 12 years of labour governance!! | |
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| Protest is an essential and healthy part of any democracy, indeed it is essential. However, the levels of violence which have been witnessed on the streets of London potentially ruin the legitimacy of the campaign!! | |
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| referring to Champs92 comments - How is the Iraqi war and Brown/Blaire relevant here? How is Tory's ideology - Thatcher-ism referenced in Brown/Blaire's reign?! | |
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| Rewind back a few hundred years, it would not have been a protest but a revolt! What does one do when your trust is betrayed by the people you put into the office, into the government?!Violence aside, I truly support the protest's core values. The new system will give new graduates a debt the size of a mortgage even before they earn anything, how is that fair, how is it not a class war?! | |
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| The Tories wish to create a two tier system. If you listen to the comments from them. They are trying to discourage from University and aspirations no higher than an apprenticeships or cheap short courses to learn the manual skills. As for protesting. It was only mass demonstrations by the TU movement that released imprisoned Dockers who were jailed for trying to defend their jobs. | The Tories wish to create a two tier system. If you listen to the comments from them. They are trying to discourage from University and aspirations no higher than an apprenticeships or cheap short courses to learn the manual skills. As for protesting. It was only mass demonstrations by the TU movement that released imprisoned Dockers who were jailed for trying to defend their jobs. |
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