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What if the Internet had been around during the 'Troubles'

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When I see the comments about attacks by IS, I wonder how history would have been changed if the Internet had been around during the 'Troubles'

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LordSutch

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

The censorship of Republican voices and views would have been ineffective and a lot more people would have known just how rotten-to-core the RUC/UDR were. Support for the Republican cause would have been an order of magnitude greater.

You would say that :rolleyes:

Junkyard Tom

The censorship of Republican voices and views would have been ineffective and a lot more people would have known just how rotten-to-core the RUC/UDR were. Support for the Republican cause would have been an order of magnitude greater.

RayM

The #upthera and #nosurrender hashtags on Twitter wouldn't just have been a load of tweets about Scottish football teams.

eeguy

What's different now is the immediacy with which we learn about incidents and attacks.

If something happened during the troubles, news outlets would dispatch reporters, interview witnesses, corroborate evidence and present the story with as many facts as possible.

Now we just have internet journalists (read: social media regurgitators) who get their stories through unverified tweets, publish whatever they like with no oversight, then edit and re-edit a story as many times as they want leaving the reader totally confused and fearful.

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I would imagine that there would have been widespread calls for internment, widespread anti-Irish sentiment

The Backwards Man

You'd have a lot of yahoos here finding themselves with the shoe on the other foot.

It surprises me that some of them are able to put their own shoes on in the morning in saying that.